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An analysis of alleged German governmental malwareAn analysis of alleged German governmental malwarePosted Oct 9, 2011 16:28 UTC (Sun) by PO8 (guest, #41661)Parent article: An analysis of alleged German governmental malware
Ouch. Do we currently have governmental malware like this running in the United States?
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An analysis of alleged German governmental malware Posted Oct 9, 2011 18:05 UTC (Sun) by ayeomans (subscriber, #1848) [Link] Sophos' blog on this trojan states: "I'm reminded of the kerfuffle which occurred almost ten years ago when there were concerns that the FBI would ask anti-virus companies to deliberately not detect spyware that they had written - dubbed "Magic Lantern". "
An analysis of alleged German governmental malware Posted Oct 10, 2011 8:36 UTC (Mon) by pcampe (guest, #28223) [Link]
For sure we have something like this in Italy.
It's usually send to the target (after a specific authorization granted by a prosecutor) as an e-mail attachment called "Querela" ("Complaint"), and this is his common name.
The news leaked as one of the targets was Luigi Bisignani (defined by PM Berlusconi as "a man a lot more powerful than me"); it seems that it intercepts the audio card, to simply bypass Skype (Bisignani used Skype a lot to avoid wiretapping).
IIRC, there was a lot of irritation between prosecutors for the leaking of this news.
An analysis of alleged German governmental malware Posted Oct 10, 2011 17:48 UTC (Mon) by fw (subscriber, #26023) [Link]
CIPAV seems to be something in the same direction (placing software on a suspect's computer without informed consent):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_and_Internet_Protoc...
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