A new report from The Intercept reveals that the NSA has been hunting and hacking system administrators the world over in order to gain access to the networks they control. The NSA was able to monitor calls and emails moving through a foreign telecom company’s network simply by having access to a system admin’s PC. From there, they could use surveillance malware to gain full access to their hardware. There are even step-by-step methods for attacking the admin’s computer using internal NSA tools when that happened. This was all apparently targeted overseas, but the message is clear.”]
Source: https://gizmodo.com/how-and-why-the-nsas-been-hacking-sys-admins-worldwide-1548620784