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Did NSA penetrate Middle East's banking networks?

Updated on: 16 April,2017 07:04 AM IST  | 
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New leaks suggests that American spies burrowed deep into Arab financial network

Did NSA penetrate Middle East's banking networks?

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Paris: A new set of documents purportedly lifted from the US National Security Agency suggests that American spies have burrowed deep into the Middle East's financial network, apparently compromising the Dubai office of the anti-money laundering and financial services firm EastNets.


TheShadowBrokers, which startled the security experts last year by releasing some of the NSA's hacking tools, has resumed pouring secrets into the public domain, this time by publishing purported details of the NSA's operations against banks across the Arab world.


"This is by far the most brutal dump," said Comae Technologies founder Matt Suiche, who has closely followed the group's disclosures and initially helped confirm its connection to the NSA last year.

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