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    Chinese claim to have found an NSA spy tool they call NOPEN

    http://www.tuxmachines.org/printpdf/162551
    Some suspect that is a virus from 2013 called Bvp47, that hasn't been seen in 10 years.

    https://thehackernews.com/2022/02/ch...etails-of.html
    Researchers from China's Pangu Lab have disclosed details of a "top-tier" backdoor put to use by the Equation Group, an advanced persistent threat (APT) with alleged ties to the cyber-warfare intelligence-gathering unit of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA).

    Dubbed "Bvp47" owing to numerous references to the string "Bvp" and the numerical value "0x47" used in the encryption algorithm, the backdoor was extracted from Linux systems "during an in-depth forensic investigation of a host in a key domestic department" in 2013.
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    Bvp47 is said to have been used on more than 287 targets in the academia, economic development, military, science, and telecom sectors located in 45 countries, mainly in China, Korea, Japan, Germany, Spain, India, and Mexico, all the while going largely undetected for over a decade.
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    Equation Group, designated as the "crown creator of cyber espionage" by Russian security firm Kaspersky, is the name assigned to a sophisticated adversary that's been active since at least 2001 and has used previously undisclosed zero-day exploits to "infect victims, retrieve data and hide activity in an outstandingly professional way," some of which were later incorporated into Stuxnet.
    Last edited by GreyGeek; Mar 14, 2022, 10:25 PM.
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