NSA ‘spies on 100,000 computers outside US’

America’s National Security Agency has implanted secret surveillance software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world — but not in the US — allowing agents to spy on the machines, it is claimed.

The New York Times cited NSA documents, computer experts and US officials in its report about the use of secret technology using radio waves to access to computers other countries have tried to protect from spying or cyber attacks.

And the software network could also create a digital highway for launching cyber attacks, the Times said.