NSA denies infecting millions of computers with malware

The American secret service NSA denies having infected millions of computers with malware in order to intercept information. In addition, the NSA does not impersonate “American social media or American websites,” according to its own statement.

The NSA calls coverage of the use of malware to infect millions of computers “inaccurate.” “Reports of arbitrary computer exploitation operations are simply untrue,” the secret service claims. It is one of the few times that the Secret Service responds to revelations arising from documents from whistleblower Edward Snowden.

According to the documents, the NSA uses malware to infect many computers in order to obtain information. That malware gets on those computers, among other things, because the NSA would pretend to be Facebook and thus gain access to the computers in order to put malware on them.

The statement leaves open the possibility that the NSA created the malware, but has not yet deployed it; the NSA is specifically speaking in the past tense when it talks about the accusation that the Secret Service “infected millions of computers.” Also, the statement leaves open the possibility that the service to distribute that malware is impersonating a non-US site or distributing malware in ways other than impersonating a site, such as through a man-in-the-middle attack. .