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TOPIC: Australia a leader in hacking mobile phones, Snowden document reveals

Australia a leader in hacking mobile phones, Snowden document reveals 9 years 8 months ago #141849

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shows the ASD hosted a top secret workshop in November 2011 with GCHQ and CSE representatives in Canberra and virtual participation from NSA and GCSB via a secure chat room. This was followed by a second workshop hosted by the CSE in Ottawa in February 2012, which included direct representation by all Five Eyes signals intelligence agencies and aimed to build on the work started at ASD.
The main purpose of the workshops was to find new ways to exploit smartphone technology for surveillance. The Five Eyes agencies used the internet spying system to identify smartphone traffic flowing across internet links and then to track down smartphone connections to app marketplace servers operated by Samsung and Google. The popular UC Browser, owned by the Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group, emerged as a particular point of weakness. It is the world's most popular mobile browser behind those pre-installed on smartphones.
Outcomes from the ASD hosted workshop included development of techniques to identify [a] wide variety of potential converged data including specific components of raw HTTP data activity that alludes to the browsing, downloading and installation of mobile phone applications .
ASD employed an analytic program codenamed Fretting Yeti and the project was trialled under the codename Crafty Shack .
As part of a further tradecraft and analytics trial code named Irritant Horn , the Five Eyes agencies trialled mass surveillance techniques in anticipation of the possibility of another Arab Spring in the Middle East. Signals intelligence analysts also found an intelligence adversary was using the UC Browser app in covert communications relating to its operations in Western countries. They trumpeted this intelligence success as providing an opportunity where potentially none may have existed before .
Significantly the newly published document shows the ASD and its partners wanted to exploit the Google and Samsung app stores for harvesting information about phone users and as launching pads to infect phones with spyware.
Previous disclosures from documents leaked by Snowden have shown Five Eyes agencies have designed spyware for iPhones and Android smartphones, enabling them to infect targeted phones and harvest emails, texts, web history, call records, videos, photos and other information stored on them. They have also been keen to find ways to send selective misinformation to targets' handsets as part of so-called effects operations that are used to spread propaganda or confuse adversaries. However, the methods used by the agencies to get the spyware on to phones have remained unclear.
Previous disclosures from documents obtained from Snowden have shown that the as well as the telecommunications systems of other south-east Asian nations, China, and Australia's small Pacific Island neighbours.
Another 2012 NSA document published last year revealed that the , which are used to protect private communications, from the Telkomsel network, and developed a way to decrypt almost all of them.
The Australian government has repeatedly refused to comment on specific disclosures from the papers leaked by Snowden, and the ASD has declined to comment in relation to the latest revelations.
Last year Prime Minister Tony Abbott insisted that Australia would not use intelligence to the detriment of other countries .相关的主题文章:


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