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Federal Law Enforcement

No Server Left Behind: The Justice Department’s Novel Law Enforcement Operation to Protect Victims

Alex Iftimie Mon, Apr 19, 2021, 4:07 PM

The U.S. Department of Justice recently announced that it undertook a law enforcement operation to remove malware from hundreds of victim systems in the United States. What’s the significance of the move?

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Cybersecurity and Deterrence

The Microsoft Exchange Hack and the Great Email Robbery

Nicholas Weaver Tue, Mar 9, 2021, 4:17 PM

The world is probably days away from a mass-exploitation of Microsoft Exchange servers—a hack that could have a far greater impact than the SolarWinds breach.

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Cyber & Technology

The End of the NIT

Nicholas Weaver Mon, Dec 5, 2016, 2:30 PM

Lawfare readers by now should be very familiar with the concept of the FBI's Network Investigatory Technique or NIT, a small piece of malicious code that exploits the target’s computer to generate a message which deanonymizes the target. So far we've seen exploitive NITs used by the FBI two major child pornography cases: Freedom Hosting and PlayPen.

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