Topic: AUSTRIA - on July 29, 2016 at 5:22:00 PM CEST
FBI's Mass Hack Hit 50 Computers in Austria
In early 2015, the FBI embarked on a massive hacking campaign, delivering malware to thousands of criminal suspects who visited a dark web child porn site. The operation was known to affect over a thousand computers in the US, and to reach as far afield as Chile and Greece. Now, it has emerged that the FBI also compromised 50 computers based in Austria, with activists warning of the FBI’s expanding extraterritorial reach when it comes to hacking. The FBI’s “Operation Pacifier” campaign centred around a dark web site called Playpen. The FBI briefly took over the site, and sent a network investigative technique (NIT)—the agency's general term for a piece of malware—to visitors of certain child pornography-related threads. That malware grabbed suspects’ IP addresses, MAC addresses, and other technical information.
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