The Equation Group Equals NSA / IRATEMONK

[f-secure.com] On December 29, 2013, Der Spiegel, a German weekly news magazine, published an article about an internal NSA catalog that lists technology available to the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO). Among that technology is "IRATEMONK". "IRATEMONK provides software application persistence on desktop and laptop computers by implanting the hard drive firmware to gain execution through Master Boot Record (MBR) substitution." Source: Wikimedia "This technique supports systems with…