New Big Brother Cyber Weapon Can Turn on Your Computer’s Microphone, Take Screen Shots, Copy Data, Record Communications

 

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To the disbelief of many of our readers, in a 2011 report titled Everything You Do Is Monitored,
we noted that microphones and cameras on cell phones and computers
allow interested parties (translated to mean your respective government)
to hear and see everything going on in the direct vicinity of the
device without the knowledge of its owner. ~ Mac Salvo

These monitoring features are available on cell phones was a
known fact, as FBI surveillance networks already have the ability to
turn on any cell phone microphone or camera remotely without tipping off
the user.

It’s believed that this surveillance technique can work even
when the cell phone user has shut down their phone, with the only
surefire way to prevent such surveillance being removal of the unit’s
battery.

Computers, however, were believed to be secure from these kinds of
backdoors, and the majority of computer users believe their PC’s are
protected from such intrusive technologies once they install virus and
malware protection software.

However, a new virus identified by leading digital security firm
Kaspersky Lab, is reportedly capable of not only embedding itself onto
computer systems without being identified by traditional anti-virus
applications, but able to execute total surveillance and monitoring that
includes turning on your camera and microphone, copying your data, and
recording emails and chat conversations.

Evidence suggest that the virus, dubbed Flame, may have been built on behalf of the same nation or nations that commissioned the Stuxnet worm that attacked Iran’s nuclear program in 2010, according to Kaspersky Lab, the Russian cyber security software maker that took credit for discovering the infections.

Kaspersky researchers said they have yet to determine whether Flame
had a specific mission like Stuxnet, and declined to say who they think
built it.

Cyber security experts said the discovery publicly demonstrates what
experts privy to classified information have long known: that nations
have been using pieces of malicious computer code as weapons to promote
their security interests for several years.

Symantec Security Response manager Vikram Thakur said that his
company’s experts believed there was a “high” probability that Flame was
among the most complex pieces of malicious software ever discovered.

Kaspersky’s research shows the largest number of infected machines
are in Iran, followed by Israel and the Palestinian territories, then
Sudan and Syria.

The virus contains about 20 times as much code as Stuxnet, which
caused centrifuges to fail at the Iranian enrichment facility it
attacked. It has about 100 times as much code as a typical virus
designed to steal financial information, said Kaspersky Lab senior
researcher Roel Schouwenberg.

Flame can gather
data files, remotely change settings on computers, turn on PC
microphones to record conversations, take screen shots and log instant
messaging chats.

Kaspersky Lab said Flame and Stuxnet appear to infect machines by
exploiting the same flaw in the Windows operating system and that both
viruses employ a similar way of spreading.

“The scary thing for me is: if this is what they were capable of five years ago, I can only think what they are developing now,” Mohan Koo, managing director of British-based Dtex Systems cyber security company.

Source: Reuters

With a new National Security Agency data center
coming online and capable of capturing, aggregating and analyzing every
digital communication in the United States, cellphones and computers
having in excess of 99% penetration across the country, and some 30,000
drones being prepared for domestic operations, we can safely say that a total police state surveillance infrastructure is now in place and fully capable of monitoring everything  – and we mean EVERYTHING – that you do.

The Matrix has you…

 

Mac Salvo – May 29, 2012 – SHTFPlan

 

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