FBI’s search for ‘Mo’ highlights use of malware for surveillance (washingtonpost.com)

frankly its fine that they do this, as long as it is regulated and is not abused. Today's criminals are harder to catch and to be blunt if the NSA had not broken laws and crossed the lines they had crossed stories like these would be fine and would not even have media relevancy.

A little more concerning to me: "The FBI has been able to covertly activate a computer’s camera — without triggering the light that lets users know it is recording"

Question: I assume it uses various zero-days and known exploits to work. But what if I'm doing all of this through a Linux VM? The guy in question is "savvy" enough to use a proper proxy, and his OPSEC is good enough to get away with things thus far...

It freaks me out! I have many same attributes as this so called Mo!

   - I have a name that starts with "Mo"
   - I am from Iran
   - I am twenty something
   - I have the same skin color

I am kind of sure that they stole my information. I feel tribble right now

There is some major disinformation in this article, either by the author or more likely fed to them by the FBI. They knew they were dealing with a very sophisticated user who knows how to cover his tracks yet the method of infecting him was to send him a web link that downloads malware? No one who is technically savvy enough to hide their tracks would also be stupid enough to click a random web link. In fact the most likely assumption is that the person probably uses a virtual machine for all of his trolling and at best the malware would only be infecting a sanitized virtual machine.

None of this adds up. More likely the FBI managed to force Yahoo to inject malicious scripts into the standard webmail login response for that user and the FBI is trying to hide this by leaking information to the media that they infect people by getting them to click on links.

Also in this case I would guess Mo' is probably short for Mossad.