Inside NSA’s Quantum Attack Platform: How Global Internet Traffic Is Hijacked

Source: People's Daily International

After the NSA’s decade‑long global cyber‑attack campaign was publicly disclosed, 360 Enterprise Security Group released a technical report on March 22 revealing the NSA’s representative “Quantum” attack platform used against targets in China.

Quantum attacks are advanced traffic‑hijacking techniques designed for nation‑state networks, allowing the NSA to continuously target users of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Amazon and other services worldwide.

The report indicates that stolen data includes population, health, education, military, aerospace, social management, transportation and infrastructure information, affecting not only China but also many U.S. allies.

Quantum attacks intercept national‑level communications for exploitation, manipulation and intelligence gathering, capable of hijacking any user’s web traffic globally, leveraging zero‑day vulnerabilities and remotely planting backdoors. 360’s cloud security brain has identified nine advanced attack modules within the platform.

The NSA employs numerous operational plans executed via the Quantum platform, enabling large‑scale, indiscriminate cyber‑intrusions worldwide, including against U.S. allies, and demonstrates fully engineered, automated network weaponry.