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Russia accused of distributing infected flash drives to G20 summit participants
October 31, 2013
EU security experts have not been able to detect spyware.
The other day, the Italian edition of Corriere della Sera accused the Russian government of issuing gift flash drives and chargers infected with the virus to the participants of the G20 summit, held in September this year in St. Petersburg. Subsequently, the President of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, handed over the devices for analysis and verification, which was simultaneously initiated by German intelligence. The publication claims that USB sticks and power cables were designed to illegally collect data from computers and mobile devices.
However, shortly after the information appeared, it was denied by the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, who said that the statement by the Italian media was nothing more than an attempt to divert attention from existing problems between European countries and the United States to nonexistent ones, RIA Novosti reported.
“We don’t know what sources of information we can talk about, but it’s definitely an attempt to switch the attention from real problems that dominate the agenda between European capitals and Washington to ephemeral, nonexistent ones,” the edition quoted Peskov.
The German authorities, in turn, refused to even comment on the situation. So, the representative of the government of the country Steffen Seibert (Steffen Seibert) said: "I can not say anything about this." Approximately the same opinion is shared by the representative of the German Ministry of Internal Affairs, Jens Teschke.
However, according to RIA Novosti with reference to the American publication Associated Press, within the framework of checking USB drives, EU security experts were not able to detect spyware.
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Putin's poisoned gift: flash drives with bugs
According to German intelligence agencies, at the G20 summit in St. Petersburg, Russians presented leaders with “modified” information storage devices that served to read data from a computer and cell phone, Guido Ruotolo writes in the La Stampa newspaper.
“The alarm sounded a few days later. European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, returning to Brussels after attending the G20 summit in St. Petersburg, handed over some gadgets to security officials, who, in turn, turned to the German intelligence services for advice ", - the author tells.
“The immediate response from Bonn alarmed half of the world’s diplomacy and intelligence. According to the results of the first technical examinations, the flash drives and mobile phone chargers received as a gift from the Russians turned out to be Trojan horses - devices for reading data from a computer and mobile phone.” , - the article says.
“Thus, an espionage operation was carried out against the G20 countries - European, South American, Asian and Arab, which makes relations between different intelligence and diplomacy even more difficult,” the author continues. “The atmosphere at the summit was tense. Because of the scandal The White House canceled Obama’s meeting with Putin with former NSA officer Edward Snowden. Even the Syrian issue didn’t help ease the tension. Many Western diplomacy take a different position than Putin’s on the war against Assad. "
"The situation became even more tense, and Washington found itself in a difficult situation after it became known that Washington’s ears were listening to the communications of the presidents of Mexico and Brazil. And it is in this situation that it becomes known about modified gadgets that indicate an official return to the conflict between secret services of many countries, "the author of the article writes.
"It is reported that German intelligence services are continuing a technical investigation. It is not known whether all the participants in the summit received the same modified devices. The biggest concern is the possibility that these flash drives were already used by some members of the 26 delegations participating in the Russian summit. German intelligence information about espionage Russian operations in St. Petersburg entered the midst of a new Datagate scandal, a story that does not end in any way and promises new unexpected turns. EU countries are very concerned about American espionage activities, "the article says.