| [UltraSurf is a free software which enables users inside countries with heavy Internet censorship to visit any public web sites in the world safely and freely. Users in countries without internet censorship also use it to protect their internet privacy and security.]The software allegedly connects to websites of financial and government institutions, and uses the PC for attacks against them. It disables SSL certificate checks and allows man-in-the-middle attacks to steal authentication credentials. It hooks into the browser and uses suspicious compression to hide parts of the program.THE ACCUSATIONS ARE DISPUTED. As of August 2010 only two of the major anti-virus vendors (NOD32, McAfee) rate the application as malicious (source: VirusTotal).The allegations were voiced by SteveTX on the Wilders Security forum and presented at the BlackHat 2009 USA conference.Discussion: http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=237184(actual details are discussed starting with post #106 on page 5)Blackhat Report: http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-09/TOPLETZ/BHUSA09-Topletz-GlobalSpying-PAPER.pdf |
UltraSurf is a free software which enables users inside countries with heavy Internet censorship to visit any public web sites in the world safely and freely. Users in countries without internet censorship also use it to protect their internet privacy and security.WARNING: The software allegedly connects to websites of financial and government institutions, and uses the PC for attacks against them. It disables SSL certificate checks and allows man-in-the-middle attacks to steal authentication credentials. It hooks into the browser and uses suspicious compression to hide parts of the program.THE ACCUSATIONS ARE DISPUTED. As of August 2010 only two of the major anti-virus vendors (NOD32, McAfee) rate the application as malicious (source: VirusTotal).The allegations were voiced by SteveTX on the Wilders Security forum and presented at the BlackHat 2009 USA conference.Discussion: http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=237184(actual details are discussed starting with post #106 on page 5)Blackhat Report: http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-09/TOPLETZ/BHUSA09-Topletz-GlobalSpying-PAPER.pdf |
