Equation Group are definitely the masters, and they are giving the others, maybe, bread crumbs.
From time to time they are giving them some goodies to integrate into Stuxnet and Flame.
But each and every computer has a hardware which runs on its own hardware.
NSA and its hacker allies used this part of the PC operation to deliver the tracking backdoor.
but there are no functions to read it back.
The Equation Groups Fanny worm malware is designed to map the topology of air-gapped networks i.e.
source: www.techworm.net
