China captures USA's 'Trojan Horse' spy tool that lurks on devices to wage cyberwarfare

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China appears to have captured an American "Trojan Horse" spy tool used to steal files deployed by the US National Security Agency, a report suggests.The Global Times obtained a report from the National Computer Virus Emergency Response Centre on Monday (March 14) that said the tool "was found to have controlled global internet equipment and stole large amounts of users' information."The tool "is mainly used for stealing files, accessing systems, redirecting network communication, and viewing a target device's information," the report said.

Cybersecurity experts told the Global Times that once the Trojan was planted into a victim's computer, it would become a "lurker" waiting for the "code" and opening the "vault door" for hackers.The software was allegedly used to control a large number of internet devices around the world and steal user privacy data.The news follows bombshell revelations that the NSA has been launching cyberattacks against 47 countries and regions for a decade, including China. "As the research and development arm of the world's top military power, the NSA cannot develop weapons that rust in their arsenals," a Chinese cybersecurity expert told the aforementioned title anonymously. To stay up to date with all the latest news, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here."The international community has learned from the PRISM scandal that the US military intelligence agency has been conducting network monitoring and cybertheft of countries around the world for a long time, and these cyber weapons are an important means of its implementation of network monitoring."In 2013, it was reported that The National Security Agency obtained direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other.