Silk Road 2.0 provided an online bazaar where users across the world could buy and sell drugs,
computer hacking tools and other illicit items, using the digital currency Bitcoin as payment, authorities said.
Not exact matches
The FBI is investigating possible links between Martin and the leak online this summer of secret NSA
hacking tools used to break into the
computers of adversaries such as Russia and China, U.S. officials said.
Security researchers explained that all these
tools can be used as is, so it's plausible to expect that next week we will see several
hacks on email servers, website defacements, or even an uptick in ransomware, the pervasive malware that locks
computers and demands a payment in Bitcoin to unlock it.
LoJack for Laptops, a software
tool designed to rat on
computer thieves, appears to be serving a double purpose — by seemingly working with a Russian state - sponsored
hacking team.
Computer scientists have built and successfully tested a
tool designed to detect when websites are
hacked by monitoring the activity of email accounts associated with them.
Terrorists are not currently using the most sophisticated
hacking tools to break into
computer systems and turn off or blow up machines.
PJA 2006 introduces a new s 3A into CMA 1990 which criminalises making, supplying or obtaining «
hacking tools»: a person is guilty of an offence if that person «supplies... any article intending it to be used to commit, or assist in the commission of [a
computer misuse offence]» or «believing that is likely to be used to commit, or assist in the commission of [any such offence]».
«The NIT [which is what the FBI calls its
hacking tools] only obtained identifying information; it did not cross the line between collecting addressing information and gathering the contents of any suspect's
computer,» he writes.
The
hack scooped up IP addresses, which are of course public, but the FBI's
hacking tool also grabbed MAC addresses, the operating system the
computer was using, and the
computer's host name.
The leaked NSA
tools were used in a recent cryptocurrency attack, called Adylkuzz, which used an army of
hacked computers, a botnet, to mine cryptocurrency and redirect reward points to the attackers» accounts.
While the Burger King development may be more gimmick than investment
tool, other recent developments such as the piliot of a blockchain platform resistant to
hacking from a qauntum
computer which was announced back in June, suggest Russia is prioritising blockchain and DLT as an area of national importance.