The National Security Agency has implanted software, codenamed Quantum, in nearly 100,000 computers worldwide, allowing the US to keep tabs on those machines and maintain a means of launching cyberattacks. According to NSA documents, computer experts, and US officials, the software is aided by technology relying on a covert channel of radio waves that can be sent out from tiny circuit boards and USB cards hidden secretly in the computers. The NSA and the US Cyber Command reportedly frequently target units of the Chinese army, which the US has accused of launching regular digital probes and attacks on American targets. It has also put this software into Russian military networks, systems used by Mexican police and drug cartels, and trade institutions in the European Union, among others.
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