HEADWATER: NSA Exploit of the Day

Schneier on Security 2014-01-14

Summary:

Today's implant from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: HEADWATER (TS//SI//REL) HEADWATER is a Persistent Backdoor (PDB) software implant for selected Huawei routers. The implant will enable covert functions to be remotely executed within the router via an Internet connection. (TS//SI//REL) HEADWATER PBD implant will be transferred remotely over the Internet to the selected target router by...

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backdoors exploits firewall hardware malware nsa operatingsystems securityengineering exploitoftheday

Authors:

Bruce Schneier

Date tagged:

01/14/2014, 16:30

Date published:

01/14/2014, 15:10