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FBI Randomly Used Malware on TORMail Users While Busting Pedophiles

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans

In 2013, the Federal Bureau of Investigation seized one of the most popular dark web email platform called TorMail and soon after the department began to rifle through the contents of the server. Back then, the researchers suspected that the FBI deployed an NIT (network investigative technique) as well to infect the users of the site. The NIT is a term used to refer to a hacking tool used by the FBI. However, the campaign wasn’t confirmed at the time but now the Washington Post’s report proves that the FBI do relies upon NIT usage. Yet there are now more questions than ever particularly it is unclear if the hacking was conducted on such a large scale as being speculated or not. Most importantly, what did the FBI do with the data received from the privacy-oriented email service? The last two paragraphs of the Washington Post report talk about the TorMail issue, which informed that the email service of Tor was allegedly used by fraudsters, child pornographers, drug vendors and Silk Road employees. Washington Post’s report states: “This week, people familiar with the investigation confirmed the FBI had used an NIT on TorMail.” The article further informed readers that the agency obtained […]

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