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Economic Espionage and Regin
From: Dave Aitel <dave () immunityinc com>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 10:04:59 -0500
It's been catchy to look at the Snowden papers and all the trojans coming out from "Western" governments and think that the 5 Eyes does espionage in an unrestricted way the way the Chinese and Russian Axis does. But they don't. If they did, you'd see crowing reports from Kaspersky and Symantec that they found information being stolen from Russian banks to aide UK financial institutions. You'd see evidence in that M&A deals would be going weirdly well for the UK using information that clearly could only be gotten from hacking in the places Regin is found. This isn't what you're seeing. You're seeing in Regin a focus on looking at cell towers in areas where the UK is at war (Afghanistan). While Regin clearly can be used to steal information, it's not stealing information from places where economic espionage is done. This is the opposite of what you find when you look at Russian or Chinese hacker teams, which often are clearly using the same toolchain to gather military intelligence and economic espionage. As I pointed out in my Business Insider article <http://www.businessinsider.com/expert-here-are-4-things-edward-snowden-gets-wildly-wrong-about-the-nsa-2014-10>, there's a big difference in the motivations and effects of the respective teams. Dave Aitel Immunity, Inc.
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