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The US Government Might Be the Biggest Hacker in the World
Cyber crime is big business in the US. It’s used to spy,
steal, harass competition, political opponents, or to stage an attack
and blamed it on a foreign enemy.
Is the government in on this crime industry? Yes, and in bigger ways than you can imagine…
This trend is enabled domestically by an institutionally corrupt US
legal system and a police state which are fast working to shut and jail
security consultants and white hat hackers who help to expose security
flaws and government hegemony over cyber space. The reason for this is
because the state wants to be able to operate in secret – as the world’s
biggest and most prolific hacking machine. In other words, the US
government want hackers to exist, but only hackers who are on their
payroll.
Still not convinced? According to McAfee, the United States is home
to the largest number of botnets or “zombie armies – a hive of computers
that are used to generate spam, relay viruses and flood networks and
servers with excessive requests to cause it to fail – in the world, and
even control remote overseas servers used to hack other computers
worldwide.
Want more? Data from Germany’s Deutsche Telekom shows that more attacks against its networks come from the US.
Obama will tell his people that the Chinese are responsible for this
hack, or that one. Still think that the US is not the number one cyber
threat to the planet in 2013?
Read this shocking report…
The United States government is investing tens of millions of
dollars each year on offensive hacking operations in order to exploit
vulnerabilities in the computers of its adversaries, Reuters reports.
According
to an in-depth article published Friday by journalist Joseph Menn, the
US and its Department of Defense contractors are increasingly pursuing
efforts to hack the computers of foreign competitors, in turn exposing a
rarely discussed aspect of the nation’s clandestine cyber operations.
In a time when the government continues to prosecute alleged domestic
computer criminals — so much so that demands for technology law
reform have
been rampant as of late — Menn says the US is guilty of spending
millions on discovering, identifying and exploiting previously unknown
security flaws, often gaining unfettered access to the systems and
networks of international targets.
As a result, the US has become one of the world’s top players in
regards to wreaking havoc over the Internet — even as calls to
investigate foreign hackers increase in Congress.
On Tuesday, a bipartisan supported proposal was introduced in
Congress specifically to protect US commercial data from being
compromised by foreign hackers. According to Menn, however, the American
government is just as guilty of cybercrimes as the countries it warns
against in introducing the “Deter Cyber Theft Act.”
“
Even as the US government confronts rival powers over widespread
Internet espionage, it has become the biggest buyer in a burgeoning
gray market where hackers and security firms sell tools for breaking
into computers,” Menn wrote.
In his report, Menn explained that a large chunk of the country’s
current cyber endeavors does not rely on defensive strategy as one might
imagine, but instead involves offensive operations launched with the
intent of causing harm on the computers of adversaries.
Menn wrote defense contractors “
spend at least tens of millions of dollars a year”
on simply researching exploits that, if pursued, could put the eyes and
ears of the American intelligence company essentially anywhere in the
world.
And although the US has not officially gone on the record to
acknowledge these shadowy operations, Menn wrote that the nation’s most
well-known cyber endeavor — the
Stuxnet worm that targeted Iranian nuclear plants — is just one example of the budding attempts to attack foreign entities.
“
Computer researchers in the public and private sectors say the
US government, acting mainly through defense contractors, has become the
dominant player in fostering the shadowy but large-scale commercial
market for tools known as exploits, which burrow into hidden computer
vulnerabilities,” he wrote.
“
In their most common use, exploits are critical but
interchangeable components inside bigger programs. Those programs can
steal financial account passwords, turn an iPhone into a listening device or, in the case of Stuxnet, sabotage a nuclear facility.”
Menn cited several defense contractors and government officials —
many speaking on condition of anonymity — who admitted the increasingly
dominant role the US government has in pursuing research on these
exploits and using them to attack rival networks.
According to the report, “
Reuters reviewed a product catalogue
from one large contractor, which was made available on condition the
vendor not be named. Scores of programs were listed. Among them was a
means to turn any iPhone into
a room-wide eavesdropping device. Another was a system for installing
spyware on a printer or other device and moving that malware to a nearby
computer via radio waves, even when the machines aren’t connected to
anything.”
These contractors, he wrote, spend upwards of $100,000 on licensing
single operations to governments, including the US. The result has been
the development of a thriving industry, largely underground, where
exploits are bought and sold before patches are developed to protect
against intrusions. These “
zero-day exploits”—
labeled as such because developers are unaware of the flaw until it’s
announced — fetch big bucks from contractors, governments and hackers.
And as the demand for these exploits increases, so do the players in
the game. One example cited by Menn is Atlanta-based Endgame Inc., which
recently brought in $23 million in funding courtesy of Silicon Valley
venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. But as early
as 2011, Endgame and similar entities have been on the radar of
hacktivists hell-bent on exposing the largely unknown doings of defense
contractors.
When the loose-knit hacking collective
Anonymous investigated
security consultants HBGary in 2011, they uncovered only the tip of an
intricate iceberg made up of former federal employees and other
intelligence workers being paid boatloads to give governments exploits
that could be used to their advantage. Project PM, the open-source
online think tank started by former Anonymous collaborator Barrett
Brown, discussed Endgame and its associates in great detail.
From a Business Week article cited by Brown:
“Endgame executives will bring up
maps of airports, parliament buildings and corporate offices. The
executives then create a list of the computers running inside the
facilities, including what software the computers run, and a menu of
attacks that could work against those particular systems. Endgame
weaponry comes customized by region — the Middle East, Russia, Latin
America and China — with manuals, testing software and ‘demo
instructions.’ There are even target packs for democratic countries in
Europe and other US allies.”
Last year Brown was
arrested on unrelated counts and remains in custody six months later with an eventual
trial still
a ways before him. The US government has since subpoenaed Internet host
Cloudflare for records pertaining to Project PM, and has equated the
website as a criminal enterprise.
“
Project PM served as a forum through which defendant Brown and
other individuals sought to discuss their joint and separate activities
and engage in, encourage, or facilitate the commission of criminal
conduct online,” the government alleged when it fought back attempts from the current Project PM administrator to quash that subpoena.
Brown fired back from prison: “
It makes it much more obvious that
this investigation and the charges against me has to do with our
successful research into what may be criminal activities by firms close
to the government.”
If convicted on all counts — more than one dozen including
threatening a federal agent and
sharing a hyperlink — Brown could be sentenced to 100 years in prison.
“It is virtually impossible to
conclude that the obscenely excessive prosecution he now faces is
unrelated to that journalism and his related activism,” Glenn Greenwald wrote earlier this year for The Guardian.
Meanwhile, Menn admitted that other investigative computer work —
specifically discovering exploits like the one Endgame thrives off of —
is an endeavor that discourages people outside of the government and
defense industry from entertaining.
“Most companies, including Microsoft,
Apple Inc. and Adobe Systems Inc, on principle won’t pay researchers
who report flaws, saying they don’t want to encourage hackers,” he wrote. “Those
that do offer ‘bounties,’ including Google Inc. and Facebook Inc., say
they are hard-pressed to compete financially with defense-industry
spending.”
Andrew Auernheimer, a 26-year-old independent security researcher, was recently
sentenced to
41 months in prison for identifying and disclosing a harmless exploit
on the servers of AT&T that allowed anyone with the know-how to
collect the email addresses of thousands of
Apple iPadusers.
After he was convicted, Auernheimer wrote for Wired that the selective
prosecution of some security researchers will deter future hackers from
ever disclosing exploits, even critical ones that effect national
security.
“In an age of rampant cyber espionage
and crackdowns on dissidents, the only ethical place to take your
zero-day is to someone who will use it in the interests of social
justice. And that’s not the vendor, the governments, or the corporations
— it’s the individuals,” he wrote. “In a few cases, that
individual might be a journalist who can facilitate the public shaming
of a web application operator. However, in many cases the harm of
disclosure to the un-patched masses (and the loss of the exploit’s
potential as a tool against oppressive governments) greatly outweighs
any benefit that comes from shaming vendors. In these cases, the antisec
philosophy shines as morally superior and you shouldn’t disclose to
anyone.”
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