Twitter used as Hacking tool by russian hackers!

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The chirping of Twitter, which is suffering a setback but that are increasingly used for political campaigning and controversy at a distance, can conceal something extremely dangerous. According to the Financial Times reveals Russian hackers known as ' APT29 ' group made "social network from 140 batture" into a weapon. They managed to hide in bits of photos attached to tweets, virus malware that penetrates through the backdoor, the service doors of our systems can, without anyone noticing for accessing computer networks in superprotette theory, remote comandandole. The system is virtually invisible to most security systems. To see the new system was the company specialized in the protection of networks "Fire Eye" which has christened the virus used by Russian hackers "Hammertoss".

The malware once infected your pc make a daily check of a specific Twitter account. At that point using Hammertoss saw that hackers have managed to instruct through malware, sending Twitter account a simple picture cracked, sending secret information contained in a computer in a governmental agency to an encrypted system of ' cloud storage ' (digital archive on the net). At that point, without any risk, the system user can access data stolen from infected pc smoothly Hammertoss enables Russian agents to communicate and exchange confidential information on Twitter without anyone noticing through the old-fashioned espionage technique known as ' steganography ' where only cononoscono sender and receiver a code by which hide in a normal page of written text apparently harmless, undetectable secret information if you don't know the decryption key.

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