100 XNUMX computers in the world under the control of the NSA

According to the New York Times, the notorious National Security Agency (NSA) has managed to "embed" its software on XNUMX computers around the world. This particular infrastructure is supposed to create footholds for espionage in global cyberspace, as well as enable large-scale network warfare attacks.

The NSA doesn't even need the Internet to infect machines with its software. This can be done using radio waves, sometimes from suitcase-sized reconnaissance relay stations that are hundreds of kilometers away from the attacked computer. Technology is not new at all. His past dates back to at least 2008.

Information about these techniques is taken from documents available in the United States and expert opinion. The NSA calls this "active defense." The most frequent targets of these American actions are units of the Chinese army.