Sauron Eyes

https://cryptostorm.org/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=8671

Tails needs a virus checker like malwarebytes


Comments


[6 Points] BahWhatever666:

They could have at least linked to the Mozilla bugs supposedly related to this mysterious, Alien like "attack vector."

When you actually know what you're doing, these things become a lot less mysterious.

Without any real technical analysis, this is hard to take seriously.


[5 Points] ErraticWire:

Assuming this story pans out, I would be in utter shock if this wasn't the work of a government entity.


[3 Points] basshead555:

Just use a version of tails on a read DVD. That way it's impossible to get a virus because no more data can be written to the DVD. This is the recommended method of the tails project


[3 Points] loopyjoowei:

This appears to be the same Equation malware discovered by Kaspersky group two months ago, it resides in the MBR and can create a hypervisor like OS beneath your OS that can read and manipulate the contents of ANY os.

http://www.kaspersky.com/about/news/virus/2015/equation-group-the-crown-creator-of-cyber-espionage

Whats interesting is that the author claims to have picked it up while setting up his clearnet-to-onion service, so perhaps he had to setup an onion service or something to that effect that made him a target of the FF 0days discovered recently, what isnt really being said is how exactly he got it, if he had scripting enabled (attack vector of 0days), if its still in his MBR.

He also mention that malicious relays were attaching a payload to the tor circuit, im not aware that this is a possiblility as it would be trivial for one relay to infect another, unless hes referring to exitnode to clearnet infection, which still i dont believe is a possibility else there would be major chaos in the tor network.


[2 Points] pxck:

Is no one else reporting on this? I don't know how credible Cryptostorm is.

Also, it seems he was infected by visiting Agora.


[2 Points] dmtinmypee:

My eyes are fucking saur after reading that short story.


[2 Points] Dirty_Cop:

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[1 Points] Wordizbond:

Can someone tl;dr this for people who don't have time to read that wall of text?


[1 Points] Str8b8m8ey:

This story is stating highly presumptuous information without being specific about anything at all. Such high probability of it being unrelated and lining up coincidentally to when he was dicking with tor. No coincidences? How about some fucking code.