US conducted 231 cyber attacks in 2011

Newly disclosed secret documents have shown that the US spy agencies conducted 231 cyber attacks in 2011, media reports said. Documents revealed by former CIA defence contractor Edward Snowden show that the scope and scale of Washington’s cyber-attacks have been growing as US intelligence services break into and disrupt computer networks in other countries, Iran’s Mehr news agency reported citing the Washington Post. 

The documents obtained by the Washington Post were part of a multi-volume intelligence budget which showed the US has built an ‘intelligence-gathering colossus’ with a whopping black budget of $52.6 billion for the current fiscal year. The budget documents also disclosed a $652 million project, code-named ‘GENIE’, under which US computer specialists infiltrate foreign networks in order to bring them under secret US control.