The CCC (Chaos Computer Club) has analysedGerman language link the more recent version of Digitask's German government trojan that was discovered by Kaspersky. This version dates back to December 2010 and has not yet been associated with an actual case. The analysis focused on the improvements that were made to fix the previous version's weaknesses, and on the postulated "audit-proof logging" of all activities.
After the Chaos Computer Club hackers made public the results of their analysis of a few samples of the so-called "Federal Trojan" and found it capable of more than just monitoring VoIP conversations, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann made sure to state that it was used only for telecommunication surveillance of suspects and only in investigations involving "serious crime", i.e. that threatened citizens' "life, limb or liberty".
Hacker group the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) has accused the German Government of using a Trojan to snoop on citizens' computers.
The CCC, which calls itself the largest hacker group in Europe, made the claim after reverse engineering a "lawful interception malware program used by German police forces” that it claimed gives the authorities access to end-user computers.
A probe into mobile phone-tapping by German police during a demonstration in February has led to condemnation, after data protection authorities labelled the widespread interception of mobile traffic “disproportionate” and “illegal”.
Saxon Data Protection Officer Andreas Schurig reached his damning conclusions in a report (PDF file in German) published on Friday into police surveillance tactics at an anti-Nazi protest that took place on 19th February in the German city of Dresden.
With hammocks hanging from trees and the smell of marijuana lingering in the air, the summer camp organised by Germany's Chaos Computer Club (CCC) almost felt like Woodstock.
German police took months to notice that computer hackers had infiltrated federal police and customs service computers, media reports said Sunday, citing unnamed cyber security officials.
The Bild am Sonntag paper cited a confidential report by the BSI, the federal agency for cybernet security in Dusseldorf, as saying that federal police computers came under attack by hackers in September 2010.
