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NSA allegedly hacked Belgian Cryptography Expert with spoofed LinkedIn Profile

Professor Jean-Jacques Quisquater has become the part of a targeted attack by the US National Security Agency (NSA) and its British counterpart GCHQ. The NSA and GCHQ are both suspected by Belgian Federal Police to be the real face behind the attack. He had fallen victim to the same ‘quantum insert’ attack in which by responding to a LinkedIn message actually redirected him to a copycat website that infected his computer with spying malware. He said: “There are bound to be hundreds of other cases where individuals were spied on, also in Belgium.”

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2014/02/nsa-allegedly-hacked-belgian.html

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