NSA Has Been Hijacking the Botnets of Other Hackers

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The NSA doesn’t just hack foreign computers. It also piggybacks on the work of professional for-profit hackers, taking over entire networks of already-hacked machines and using them for their own purposes.

That’s one of the surprising details to emerge from the latest Edward Snowden leaks.

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Story added 13. March 2014, content source with full text you can find at link above.