Anonymous leaks FBI phone call; reminds of the insecurity of conference lines
Hacktivist group Anonymous has released an audio recording of a January 17 conference call which it claims includes members of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the UK's Scotland Yard discussing their latest anti-hacking efforts. We've embedded the 17-minute long clip above.
The participants in the conference call talk about Anonymous, LulzSec, Antisec, CSL Security and other black hat security groups, the evidence they have against such groups, and their progress in arresting suspects.
The discussion in the call really contains nothing too revealing, and the names of underage hackers are censored. But the nefarious part about this leak is not the content reavealed, but the revelation of the general insecurity of these sort of calls.
Whoever sat in on the call appears to have done so simply by obtaining the e-mail that contained dial-in information, and dialing in. Anonymous published the aforementioned e-mail alongside the recording.
With all the different bureaus sitting in on the call, the speaker identified as "Bruce" acknowledged at the beginning of the call that he didn't know how many others were on the line.
The FBI has confirmed the authenticity of the call.
Just five days after the call took place, the New York Times published an article about the overall vulnerability of conference lines -both video and voice- and how security researchers at Rapid7 in Boston could peek into open conference rooms at some of the biggest corporations across the country at will.
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