NSA burying spyware within firmware of disk drives made by Seagate, Western Digital and other major manufacturers

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Long-running encrypted malware used to target governments, telecoms companies, suspected political extremists and others for almost 20 years

The US National Security Agency (NSA) has been hiding spyware within the firmware of hard-disk drives made by Seagate, Samsung, Toshiba, and Western Digital - and other major manufacturers - in a spy programme...

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