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The Office of Tailored Access Operations (TAO), now Computer Network Operations, and structured as S32, [1] is a cyber-warfare intelligence-gathering unit of the National Security Agency (NSA). [2] It has been active since at least 1998, possibly 1997, but was not named or structured as TAO until "the last days of 2000," according to General ...
The Tailored Access Operations unit has existed since the late 1990s. Its mission is to collect intelligence on foreign targets of the United States by hacking into computers and telecommunication networks. [3] It has been speculated for years before that capabilities like those in the ANT catalog existed. [1]
The Tailored Access Operations (TAO) division of the NSA intercepted the shipping deliveries of computers and laptops in order to install spyware and physical implants on electronic gadgets. This was done in close cooperation with the FBI and the CIA.
According to the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog, after implanting Cottonmouth, the NSA can establish a network bridge "that allows the NSA to load exploit software onto modified computers as well as allowing the NSA to relay commands and data between hardware and software implants." [91]
From 2013 to 2017, he was head of the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO), a cyber-warfare intelligence-gathering unit. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] [ 32 ] In that role, he gave a rare public talk at the USENIX Enigma Cybersecurity conference about disrupting nation state hackers .
The NSA's listing of its Tailored Access Operations program named IRATEMONK from the NSA ANT catalog. F-Secure claims that the Equation Group's malicious hard drive firmware is TAO program "IRATEMONK", [13] one of the items from the NSA ANT catalog exposed in a 2013 Der Spiegel article.
The National Security Agency is revealing aspects it never disclosed before about its role in helping the U.S. government track down Osama bin Laden, the al Qaeda founder and terrorist who ...
Tailored Access Operations – a division of the NSA that deals with hacking and cyberwarfare FISA – all types of surveillance approved by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Third party – foreign partners of the NSA such as the (signals) intelligence agencies of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands ...