The FBI does “not believe” that the hacking tools it uses to break into the computers of suspected criminals should be considered “malware,” because it says they’re used with good intentions.
In the court filing, first spotted by Julian Sanchez, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, the FBI said that its hacking tools, so-called network investigative techniques (NIT), are not “malicious.”
Source: FBI says its malware isn’t malware because ‘we’re the good guys’ | ZDNet
