Cyber sleuths find 'smoking gun' linking British spy agency to Regin malware

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Ever since the sophisticated and unprecedented cyberattack platform called "Regin" was uncovered in November, cyber sleuths have been working hard to put together all the pieces of this complicated puzzle.

Regin was like a dinosaur: many researchers found some of its bones throughout the years, but no one had the full skeleton, as a researcher put it at the time. Now, thanks to newly published Edward Snowden documents, some researchers might have found the smoking gun that conclusively connects the dinosaur to a specific spy agency, the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), a close ally of the National Security Agency (NSA). Read more...

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