Whether or not the FBI is wielding a hacking tool again isn't certain, though. Analysis of the code suggests that some of the exploit code is "almost" exactly like what the FBI used in a 2013 bust that exposed child pornography users. There are signs that it might be law enforcement. However, it raises a question: just who's using it? You won't find many people shedding a tear over the closure, of course. The discovery not only raised alarm bells on the shadier side of the Dark Web (one wiki warned that it was a "NIT," or a network investigative technique used by law enforcement), but led GiftBox to abruptly shut down on November 15th out of fear of police action. Motherboard has learned that the JavaScript-based attack was used to target visitors to The GiftBox Exchange, a Dark Web child pornography site. Word has been circulating of a security exploit being used to compromise Tor Browser users, and we now know who some of the targets are.
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