Possible Governmental Backdoor found ("case R2D2") - F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab
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We have no reason to suspect CCC’s findings, but we can’t confirm that this trojan was written by the German government. As far as we see, the only party that could confirm that would be the German government itself.
Our generic policy on detecting governmental backdoors or “lawful interception” police trojans can be read here.
We have never before analysed a sample that has been suspected to be governmental backdoor. We have also never been asked by any government to avoid detecting their backdoors.
Having said that, we detect this #backdoor as Backdoor:W32/R2D2.A