Belgacom already knew for a year that something was wrong with their own servers, but has no in-depth investigation. That reports the Flemish newspaper De Standaard. Only after the revelations of Edward Snowden came to a study of the spionagemalware.
Belgacom left Microsoft in January to do research to the private servers, but there was nothing left, reports The Standard. Only after Snowden in June, the extensive scale of international espionage revealed, allowed Belgacom to research by Dutch security firm Fox-IT. In July, the Belgian provider declaration of the hack and the installation of malware to customers spy on you. Fox-IT did not respond to questions from Tweakers.
According to sources of The Default presumption of the parties that the American intelligence service NSA is behind the hack. That can be verified by the malware to compare with previously discovered malware in other European countries, which are already linked to the NSA.
It is unclear that the hackers had coined: the information suggests that it was to Belgacom International Carrier Services, an organization that calls in the Middle East, handles, draws The Standard that Belgacom, the calls of the European Union in Brussels is being handled by Belgacom and by deletion of the malware that would be disturbed.
Now is the malware removed, as was Monday already. The hackers would Belgacom have selected to get access to Bics, a joint venture of multiple providers, because the Belgian provider the least security would have. The Belgian government has announced ‘appropriate steps’ as a reaction to the news, but what those steps are, is unclear.