FBI Malware

Documents: FBI Spyware Has Been Snaring Extortionists, Hackers for Years

In a separate February 2007, Cincinnati-based investigation of hackers who'd successfully targeted an unnamed bank, the documents indicate the FBI's efforts may have been detected. An FBI agent became alarmed when the hacker he was chasing didn't get infected with the spyware after visiting the CIPAV-loaded website. Instead, the hacker "proceeded to visit the site 29 more times," according to a summary of the incident. "In these instances, the CIPAV did not deliver its payload because of system incompatibility."

Translation: Our stuff only works while you have an OS that lets us do whatever we want to you, whenever we want.

A clue (or three) for the FBI:

1) Don’t try to hack a hacker. You’ll lose. 2) Hackers don’t use Windows. Only suckers do. 3) The hacker visited the site a few times with this friends to reverse engineer the vulnerability and the malware. Game over. Thanks for playing.