Washington : According the Wall Street Journal, FBI employs a number of high-tech hacker tactics to round up information on suspects, along with remotely activating microphones on Android devices and notebook computers and laptop devices, WSJ quoting one of its sources who is a “former U.S. official”.
The Wall Street Journal further said that, federal agencies have largely kept quiet about these capabilities, but court documents and interviews with people involved in the programs provide new details about the hacking tools, including spyware delivered to computers and phones through email or Web links, such techniques are more commonly associated with attacks by criminals.
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| All Android devices can be hacked |
The FBI develops some hacking tools internally and most of them are bought from public sector and with the help of such tools, FBI can remotely activate microphone on any device running Google Android System to monitor all activities of a suspect. The could be done with microphones and cameras of laptops, when asked to comment, Google declined to comment on the topic.
According to a former U.S official, FBI uses hacking in typical cases involving organized crime, child pornography or counter terrorism.
The FBI has been developing hacking tools for more than a decade, but rarely discloses its techniques.