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Free Tools For Detecting Hacking Team Malware In Your Systems

Posted by timothy on from the just-checking dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Worried that you might have been targeted with Hacking Team spyware, but don't know how to find out for sure? IT security firm Rook Security has released Milano, a free automated tool meant to detect the Hacking Team malware on a computer system. Facebook has also offered a way to discover if your Mac(s) have been compromised by Hacking Team malware: they have provided a specific query pack for its open source OS analysis tool osquery.

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  1. Hmmm ... by gstoddart · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So how do we know we can trust the hacking tools designed to tell us if the hacking tools have installed hacking tools?

    If this shit isn't proof that giving governments backdoors to security and crypto is a terrible idea, I have no idea what is.

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  2. Let me see if I understand this by argStyopa · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...so, to see if I have undetected malware buried in my system, I should run an unidentified exe file from a company I've NEVER heard of?

    Well, that sounds like a great idea.

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    -Styopa
  3. Re:Zero need is always free by behrooz0az · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hate to break it to You, You look so pretty in your small little iSheep bubble. but their malware IS cross-platform and those platforms DO INCLUDE Mac.

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  4. Facebook's tool by CanadianMacFan · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'll take my chances with the Hacking Team malware, I trust them more.