How does Russian malware get onto government computers? Through porn-watching civil servants

Published October 30, 2018 1:48am ET



Want to export malware to U.S. government systems? Link it to porn and, chances are, a government employee will download those files to his work computer.

That sounds crazy — who would think it was a good idea to watch porn on a work computer? But many government employees do just that, and it’s exactly how one employee at a U.S. Geological Survey satellite imaging facility let the Russians into the network.

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