Snowden documents reveal: NSA would use app stores to spread spyware – ITavisen.no

Attempted hijacking traffic.

Friday, 22 May 2015 – 2:16 p.m.

The Next Web writes that we should stop being surprised every time there are new leaks Snowden, and although it might be a good point, it’s not going to hide that it is interesting to get an insight into what the NSA is doing.

Now, new revelations come to light, and this time it’s CBS who has published documents.

It turns out now that the NSA planned to make use of the various app stores, including Google and Samsung’s, to spread spyware.

NSA got help from his allies in Canada, New Zealand, UK and Australia.

Hijacking
They depended on to get the software onto users’ phones and to do this they planned to hijack line between the user and app store.

In this way they could sneak into the software without it being detected.

“As part of the pilot project, the codename irritants HORN, developed agencies a way to hack and hijack users’ connectivity app shops. How could they send infected ‘implants’ devices. The implants could then be used to collect data from the phones without any of the users noticed it, “says the document.

It is unclear whether NSA actually implemented this plan.

Got telephone
documents also tell of a security flaw in Chinese Alababas browser UC Browser.

The flaw should have made it possible for the NSA to get information about the user’s phone number and SIM card.

The leak confirms once again that the NSA has been willing to do a lot of things to obtain information.

Source:
IDG.se