NSA and GCHQ spoofed LinkedIn to hack Belgian cryptography professor — report

Belgium’s federal prosecutor is looking into the alleged hacking of noted cryptographer Jean-Jacques Quisquater by the NSA and its British counterpart GCHQ, according to a Saturday report in De Standaard . Quisquater’s targeting became apparent during the investigation into the hacking of telecoms firm Belgacom, shown by Edward Snowden’s leaks to be the work of GCHQ. As in that case, the Université catholique de Louvain professor reportedly fell victim to a “quantum insert” trick that duped him into thinking he was visiting LinkedIn to respond to a “request” when he was actually visiting a malware-laden copy of a LinkedIn page.

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