NSA Dressed Up As Facebook To Infect PCs With Malware

NSA Dressed Up As Facebook To Infect PCs With MalwareThe National Security Agency, or NSA for short, has not been in the good books of many a person simply because of what they have done in the past, as well as alluded to have done. This latest bit of information is not going to earn them any kind of endearments, either, as it has been reported that the NSA posed as Facebook at times using automated systems in order to infect user computers with malware for the past four years.

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