Child Abuse Websites Compromised By Malware

2 Timothy 3:1-8 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these. For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.

A web company that is accused of helping child abusers share files on a hidden part of the internet has been compromised by malware.

The sites were using the service provider Freedom Hosting and had code attached to their pages that could be used by law enforcement to reveal the people visiting the pages.

“This challenges the assumption people have made that Tor is a simple way of maintaining your anonymity online,” Alan Woodward, chief technology officer at security advisors Charteris, told the BBC. “The bottom line is that is not guaranteed even if you think you are taking the right steps to hide your identity. This is the first time we’ve seen somebody looking to unmask people rather than just security researchers discussing the possibility.”

The breach was first discovered when a 28-year-old man in Dublin, Ireland was arrested and accused by the FBI of being the “largest facilitator of child porn on the planet.” The U.S. is seeking to extradite Eric Marques on at least four charges.

Freedom Hosting was forced offline in 2011 by the hacker group Anonymous who said they were hosting material showing child abuse.

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