Have German cops commissioned Skype-hacking Trojan?
January 29, 2008 - Computerworld.com is reporting that German police have been caught trying to hire a company to create Trojans capable of capturing traffic from Skype and SSL, leaked documents appear to show.
The two scanned documents, which appear on the Wikileaks website in their German form, are difficult to verify, but one appears to describe how a security company, Digitask, was asked to create a “Skype Capture Unit” based around Trojans planted on targeted PCs covertly transferring data to a remote server.
“As requested by you, we hereby submit an offer for a surveillance method of the encrypted VoIP protocol Skype,” says the company hired to carry out the hacking.