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NSA does not have the monopoly of state spying. Two malware, dubbed Babar and Evil Bunny, were probably developed by the French intelligence services. After the Canadian charges last year, revealed by Edward Snowden documents provided to the Le Monde , two teams of researchers sifted through the software.

Paul RASCAGNERES, the German company Gdata, do not directly accuse the DGSE. He said that “the allocation of origin, especially in the case of a professional malware, is always difficult,” and no new evidence has been discovered. However, he believes that “the assertion of Canadian involvement ” French intelligence services ‘unchanged’, particularly because of” indications in the code “of the software, such as the use of” ko ” for “kilobyte” instead of “kb” for “kilobyte” in force in many countries.

Spy on instant messengers

With his big ears, listening to the conversations Babar instant messengers like Skype, Yahoo Messenger and MSN. He could both monitor the sound through the microphone and the speaker of the computer but also the text typed at the keyboard.

Babar would mainly deployed in Iran to spy on Tehran’s nuclear program . But Babar was much less advanced than the Stuxnet worm, which was developed by the US to damage the Iranian centrifuges. Babar was simply monitoring “targeted” according RASCAGNERES. Infected machines have also been detected in Algeria, Egypt, Spain and Canada, but we do not know if collateral victims or target countries.



The EvilBunny cousin

Babar had an evil cousin nicknamed EvilBunny. According to the researcher Cyphort Marion Marschalek, “the two virus families are derived from the same developers.” Found including some English mistakes identical in the comments. However, this is a simple indication as bad syntax can easily falsify.

The charges against Paris are not a surprise. All countries have cyber spies, explaining to 20 Minutes John Bumgarner, including past by the CIA. According to the NSA historian Matthew Aid, France is even “a pioneer of surveillance since the First World War.”