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Free Tools For Detecting Hacking Team Malware In Your Systems
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.
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.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Hmm, some security firm I've never heard of, releases a tool I've never heard of, which is supposed to tell me if I've been got spyware with alleged government ties. Yeah, that sounds super trustworthy...
Oops, I left the sarcasm bit turned on. Sorry about that...
...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.
-Styopa