The NSA has once again been hoist upon its own petard.
According to Reuters, Chinese spies managed to hijack code first developed by the NSA to support the agency's hacking operations, the latest example of how malicious software developed by the US federal government has been used against the US, or its allies.
Chinese spies reportedly first used the code developed by the NSA to support their own operations.
The revelations were first shared by a team of Israeli researchers called Check Point Software Technologies, which issued a report noting that some features in a piece of China-linked malware it calls "Jian" were so similar they could only have been stolen from a cache of NSA hacking tools that was leaked to the web back in 2017.
The "Jian" exploit was described by the Israelis as "a Chinese replica" of NSA-made US tools.
Some say that this latest evidence of the NSA's tools being used against it is another reason for the agency to consider fixing more vulnerabilities instead of exploiting them.
Some might see this as karmic justice, after former NSA contractor Edward Snowden first exposed several of the NSA's illegal domestic surveillance programs back in 2013.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/chinese-spies-hijack-nsa-hacking-tools-use-against-us
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