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11.11.2013 Par La Voix de la Russie
Les services secrets britanniques GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) ont utilisé de faux comptes LinkedIn et Slashdot à des fins d'espionnage, communique la revue allemande Spiegel.
Ils ont ainsi piraté le siège de l'Organisation des pays exportateurs de pétrole (OPEP) et la compagnie belge de télécommunications Belgacom.
De faux profils ont été utilisé pour avoir accès aux réseaux internes des organisations en question. Les GCHQ appellent ce mode de pénétration « quantum insert ». Les détails de son fonctionnement ne sont pas communiqués.
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November 11, 2013 By SPIEGEL Staff
America's NSA and Britain's GCHQ are both spying on the OPEC oil cartel, documents from whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal. The security of the global energy supply is one of the most important issues for the intelligence agencies.
Documents disclosed by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal that both America's National Security Agency (NSA) and Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) have infiltrated the computer network of the the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).
In January 2008, the NSA department in charge of energy issues reported it had accomplished its mission. Intelligence information about individual petroleum-exporting countries had existed before then, but now the NSA had managed, for the first time, to infiltrate OPEC in its entirety.
OPEC, founded in 1960, has its headquarters in a box-like building in Vienna. Its main objective is to control the global oil market, and to keep prices high. The 12 member states include Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Iran and Iraq.
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