Dark Reading – The NSA’s catalog of custom hacking tools for popular networking and consumer products recently leaked by former contractor Edward Snowden provided a rare glimpse at the arsenal at the fingertips of the spy agency’s hackers.
But the tools were not unlike many techniques and weapons employed by criminals or other espionage cyberattackers, experts say. Take DROPOUT JEEP, the NSA-built hacking tool included in its recently published catalog in 2008 that hacks iPhones. DROPOUT JEEP is technically a remote access Trojan or RAT, says Lucas Zaichkowsky, enterprise defense architect at incident response and forensics firm AccessData.
