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When Belgacom, a Belgian telecommunications provider partly owned by the government, discovered a cyberattack on its infrastructure, officials initially suspected involvement by the NSA. Documents from Edward Snowden's archive show that Britain's GCHQ was responsible for "Operation Socialist".
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A chart from Symantec shows the structure of the Regin malware: There are several stages to Regin. It appears that the spying software was used in order to conduct surveillance on the EU.

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A slide from a "top secret" presentation by Britain's GCHQ intelligence agency. The abbreviation CNE is short for computer network exploitation, intelligence agency jargon for spying on computer systems. GRX routers are network hubs that enable mobile phones to roam between different networks. MiTM stands for "Man in the Middle" attacks, an elobarate form of network attack.

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QI stands for Quantum Insert, a technology developed by the NSA in order to infect computers with spyware. VPN stands for Virtual Private Networks, particularly well-secured Internet connections. According to this slide, the GCHQ wants to have a better understanding of the secure VPN connections between Belgacom subsidiary Bics and other telecoms providers.

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This slide states that the internal codename for Belgacom is "Merion Zeta," and the operation has been labeled a "success".

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