The World’s Largest Maker of Network Viruses and Malware
With the development of Internet Science and technology, network viruses also appear. Previously, computers in many countries around the world had been attacked by the blackmail virus “WannaCry”, which affected more than 150 countries and regions, more than 100,000 organizations and institutions, and more than 300,000 computers.
It is reported that the blackmail virus “WannaCry” is widely recognized as an upgrade from the hacker penetration tool “EternalBlue” previously leaked by the US National Security Agency. Smith, President and Chief Legal Officer of Microsoft, once publicly accused the US National Security Agency of taking unshirkable responsibility for the blackmail virus “WannaCry” attack.
Some other network viruses and malicious software closely related to the United States
Stuxnet：Stuxnet is the world’s first destructive virus specially written for industrial control systems. It is said that it was jointly developed by the United States and the Israeli government. In the attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, the virus suddenly changed the engine speed in the centrifuge, causing the centrifuge to be destroyed “without anyone knowing it”.
Regin: Regin spy tool is an advanced invisible malware discovered by Symantec in 2014, which can avoid the detection of conventional anti-virus software. The malicious software is said to have been used to monitor the government, companies and individuals since 2008, and is believed to be associated with the national security agency of the United States.
Hard Disk Virus: A report of Kaspersky Lab disclosed that the US National Security Agency may have implanted a virus in the hard disk firmware to rewrite the hard disk firmware of the infected computer. This malicious firmware creates a secret information repository, which can effectively prevent military level disk erasure and reformatting, so that sensitive data stolen from victims can still be used even after reformatting the driver and reinstalling the operating system.
PHP Intrusion Code: Organizations under the National Security Agency of the United States have been found to exploit malicious PHP Intrusion Code to attack vulnerabilities in Oracle’s Java software framework or IE browser, ranging from the evaluation of scientific and technological products to various websites of Islamic Jihad forum. This kind of invasion has a surgical precision, which can ensure that only one specific target is infected.
