Oh wait a minute! They wanna buy our ZOO's??? well, ok, I rescind some of my previous message.... if they're purchasing our zoos, then they have every right to request it in any format they wish... even sent via smoke signals in binary :-)
Still don't really trust them, but yah, that article makes it sound like they just wanna gather as many samples as quickly as possible and as easily as possible... what's easier than asking to purchase them all? :-) Mike B Michael P. Blanchard Principal Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE Cyber Security Services EMC ² Corporation 32 Coslin Drive Southboro, MA 01772 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Ferguson Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2014 1:58 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [funsec] FBI wants your malware -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 The URL for this article is here: http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/cybersecurity-report/2014/02/fbi-market-malware/78218/ More appropriate excerpt here: "The specific organization in need is the FBI Investigative Analysis Unit of the Operational Technology Division, a team of specialists providing on-the-scene tech support and "employing innovative, custom developed analytical methods" to analyze digital evidence, according to the solicitation." That doesn't sound so scandalous. VirusTotal's parent company, Google, could easily apply for this... or ShadowServer, or any number of organizations which maintain libraries of malware. - - ferg On 2/5/2014 10:30 AM, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah wrote: > The FBI has sent out a call from malware, spam, and other unwanted > digital trash. > > They want to build a repository in order to ... well, actually, > they don't, and won't, according to the lack of response to a > number of media requests, say why. > > Of course, don't bother sending in your daily allotment of odio > lectus decipio urinatio (or spam trap diving). > > They want it bundled in a neat package, organized and categorized. > (I'm not sure why the existing repositories aren't good enough for > them.) > > Good luck, FBI. > - -- Paul Ferguson VP Threat Intelligence, IID PGP Public Key ID: 0x54DC85B2 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iF4EAREIAAYFAlLyibEACgkQKJasdVTchbIcjwEAweCYAl/REHCgWqVx5DP0MQIW 3yZd0/HGgCLXnn4gRjwBALcEijFOmhUVqm2Ad9Y5GrZwvmUXENw3HRV6NLEn4Kes =2Jzp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
