We saw examples of these techniques in 2013, when Der Spiegel published details of the NSA’s 2008 catalog of implants. Another former intelligence operative confirmed that the NSA had developed the prized technique of concealing spyware in hard drives, but said he did not know which spy efforts relied on it.” A related Reuters story provides more confirmation: “A former NSA employee told Reuters that Kaspersky’s analysis was correct, and that people still in the intelligence agency valued these spying programs as highly as Stuxnet. Kaspersky doesn’t explicitly name the NSA, but talks about similarities between these techniques and Stuxnet, and points to NSA-like codenames. The details are impressive, and I urge anyone interested to read the Kaspersky documents, or this very detailed article from Ars Technica. This week, Kaspersky Labs published detailed information on what it calls the Equation Group-almost certainly the NSA-and its abilities to embed spyware deep inside computers, gaining pretty much total control of those computers while maintaining persistence in the face of reboots, operating system reinstalls, and commercial anti-virus products. The Equation Group's Sophisticated Hacking and Exploitation Tools
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