NSA planted malware in over 50,000 computer networks

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More information about the NSA has been leaked by Snowden which details an initiative called “Computer Network Exploitation” that has planted malware in over 50,000 computer networks across 5 continents. 

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If all of the known National Security Agency surveillance wasn’t enough, the organization infected 50,000 computer networks with malware that could “steal sensitive information” according to new slides published by the Danish paper, NRC.

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