Hackers declare war on international forensics tool • The Register
Hackers have released software they say sabotages a suite of forensics utilities Microsoft provides for free to hundreds of law enforcement agencies across the globe.
Decaf is a light-weight application that monitors Windows systems for the presence of COFEE, a bundle of some 150 point-and-click tools used by police to collect digital evidence at crime scenes. When a USB stick containing the Microsoft software is attached to a protected PC, Decaf automatically executes a variety of countermeasures.
The well is getting deeper. The time will be coming soon (if we're not there already) where most malware and hard target environments will have layered anti-forensics.
Look for more privacy -> probable criminal conclusions from this escalation in the near future.
