Operation Socialist The Inside Story Of How British Spies Hacked Belgium’s Largest Telco

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Operation Socialist The Inside Story Of How British Spies Hacked Belgium’s Largest Telco
Botnet	Regin
Malware
Botnet/malware group
Exploit kits
Services
Feature
Distribution vector
Target
Origin
Campaign
Operation/Working group
Vulnerability
CCProtocol
Date	2014 / 2014-12-13
Editor/Conference	The Intercept
Link	https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/12/13/belgacom-hack-gchq-inside-story/ (Archive copy)
Author	Ryan Gallagher
Type	Press article

Abstract

“ Last year, documents from National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden confirmed that British surveillance agency Government Communications Headquarters was behind the attack, codenamed Operation Socialist. And in November, The Intercept revealed that the malware found on Belgacom’s systems was one of the most advanced spy tools ever identified by security researchers, who named it “Regin.”

The full story about GCHQ’s infiltration of Belgacom, however, has never been told. Key details about the attack have remained shrouded in mystery—and the scope of the attack unclear.

Bibtex

 @misc{2014BFR329,
   editor = {The Intercept},
   author = {Ryan Gallagher},
   title = {Operation Socialist The Inside Story Of How British Spies Hacked Belgium’s Largest Telco},
   date = {13},
   month = Dec,
   year = {2014},
   howpublished = {\url{https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/12/13/belgacom-hack-gchq-inside-story/}},
 }