It's naive to think that nations aren't spying on each other, like deploying secret

agents in each other's countries, but in the modern times we live in, when nations

rely so heavily on computers to store communications and data, that spying is now done online.

Governments train people to become elite hackers, to break into networks of other countries

and snoop on their emails and databases.

You see in cyberspace the rules are unclear on what one nation can do to another, the

geographical boundaries are unseen, and the attacks go undetected, and even if you see

an attack it's almost impossible to know who did it.

Nation states cyber attacks intent on spying, are covert and silent.

The malware they use can be sitting inside the network of targeted industries and organizations

for years before they're found.

And that's if they're ever found at all.

And that time they're collecting data, spying on their targets before quietly leaving with

their surveillance gear intact.

Or at least that's what's supposed to happen.

This is the story about one of the most advanced malware toolkits ever found, and how one country

used it to break into a global telecom provider.

It's a story that attackers didn't ever want you to know about.

This attack and the malware and mission required a ton of resources to carry out.

This is that only a nation state could provide, such as a team of extremely talented hackers

access to exploits that no one else had and the motivation to infiltrate a company to

steal secret information.

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