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“The proposed amendment would enable investigators to conduct a search and seize electronically stored information by remotely installing software on a large nu
by cinquemb 13y ago
“The proposed amendment would enable investigators to conduct a search and seize electronically stored information by remotely installing software on a large number of affected victim computers pursuant to one warrant issued by a single judge”
I wonder if we'll start to see researchers/people come across more of things like this in the wild? Which makes me wonder if federal agents are going to be enlarging the attack surface against their own systems?
- zeroday01 13y agoI believe there have already been at least 2 cases of the FBI using the very mass exploitation technique discussed in the article. The 2012 investigation dubbed "Operation Torpedo"[0] and the Freedom Hosting exploit in 2013 dubbed "Torsploit"[1]. There were 25 arrests in the first operation and those suspects are currently fighting the search warrant because the FBI failed to give notice to the those who had the virtual search warrant executed on them within the required 30 days. Nothing has really come of the second operation (after over 10 months now) except for an arrest of someone the FBI was able to identify without the help of their exploit (they used the same user name on Tor as they did on the clearnet). [0]: http://www.wowt.com/news/headlines/Fed-Tactics-on-Trial-in-Porn-Case-255716621.html http://www.wowt.com/news/headlines/Fed-Tactics-on-Trial-in-P... [1]: http://www.propublica.org/nerds/item/is-the-u.s.-government-behind-torsploit http://www.propublica.org/nerds/item/is-the-u.s.-government-...
- nitrogen 13y agoIf your quote means that one warrant can force a victim of hacking to install FBI spyware on their systems, this is very troubling, and seems like it would dissuade many organizations from reporting a hack at all, because the cure will be worse than the disease