The NSA has aimed to equip the USA for possible digital wars in the near future, using surveillance and digital weapons to enhance its existing power. New documents show how the NSA has used its servers as hacking platforms to hack in the system of foreign governments by implanting a malware. According to Snowden, the NSA also secretly tapped into South Korean network espionage on North Korean networks to collect information. The NSA hackers compromised the North Korean systems by spreading malicious code through spear phishing campaigns: The agency’s success in getting into North Koreas systems in recent years should have allowed the agency to see the first spear phishing attacks on Sony.”]
Source: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/32592/intelligence/nsa-compromised-systems-north-korea.html