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FBI behind TOR malware

2013-09-13 21:02:21.830299+00 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

FBI admits that it was behind the TOR malware attack:

“The attackers spent a reasonable amount of time writing a reliable exploit, and a fairly customized payload, and it doesn’t allow them to download a backdoor or conduct any secondary activity,” said Vlad Tsyrklevich, who reverse-engineered the Magneto code, at the time.

The attack was used to map IP addresses, nominally for a crackdown on child pornography downloaders.

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