Crypto Legend Quisquater Targeted - But NSA May Not Be To Blame

judgecorp writes "Reports that the NSA and/or Britain's GCHQ deliberately targeted Belgian cryptography professor Jea-Jacques Quisquater may be jumping to conclusions, the professor has said. Investigation of an apparent NSA/GCHQ hack of Belgian ISP Belgacom uncovered evidence that Quisquater's PC had been infected with malware and had data extracted. However the two incidents might be coincidence: similar malware is used by Asian attackers, he said."

Re:TFA doesn't tell much...

[AHuxley]

Some more at http://www.infosecurity-magazi... [infosecuri...gazine.com] is6
"He received a fake LinkedIn invite from a non-existent person in the European patent office (Quisquater holds 17 patents).
This dropped a variant of the MiniDuke malware which covertly opens a backdoor onto the infected computer."
and http://www.infosecurity-magazi... [infosecuri...gazine.com]

Re:Crypto Legend?

[Fref]

The french page is more thorough http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/J... [wikipedia.org] I was a student of his, and he is indeed well known in the field of cryptography. This might give you a glimpse of his relevance: http://scholar.google.com/cita... [google.com]