– And ‘specializes in spy program online the Milan-based company that has been attacked by hackers in the night between Sunday and Monday. Under fire is over Hacking Team , which has among its customers agencies and governments around the world, including some oppressive regimes and dictatorships, as it emerged just after the spread Your data following the intrusion of hackers in its databank.
From its systems, still unidentified hackers have in fact stolen documents and file in large quantities. According to the site CSO Online , which first reported the news, it is a material equal 400 Gigabyte, which were then put online on BitTorrent, through the Twitter account of the company, even this compromise by the action of hackers.
The attack is likely in fact to bring to light elements embarrassing for the Italian company. By e-mail exchanges between company managers (including the CEO David Vincenzetti ) and representatives of various government agencies, emerges in fact a long list of clients (including government which has in the past Hacking Team denied having to do), among which there are Egypt, Ethiopia, Morocco, Nigeria, Sudan, the United States, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Thailand, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Bahrain, Oman, Saudi Arabia and UAE.
And the network begin to converge the first documents. The list of customers Sudan and Russia are shown as “not officially supported,” element that does not assume collaborations in sunlight. Among the papers put online there are instructions, dated July 2, 2012 and addressed to the National Intelligence and Security Services of Khartoum (Sudan), to receive a payment of EUR 480 thousand as the first installment for a system of remote control. Also check a contract worth one million dollars with Ethiopia.
And then there’s another joke: it seems that some employees of the IT company were using password normally not recommended from any user of common sense, such as the trivial “passw0rd”.
It is not yet clear who has violated systems Hacking Team and the company for the time responds to requests for clarification with a curt ” no comment “, but the news of the attack has been around the web with the hashtag #HackingTeam, immediately jumped to head the trending topics on Twitter.
The profile of the company – Hacking Team is an IT company with a difference. Based in Milan, the company sells surveillance programs to governments around the world , also in Italy, and in the past had already come under the spotlight for his involvement in Datagate and as quoted by a report of the NGO Privacy International of hundreds of private companies that sell interception systems similar to those used by the NSA. The same NGO last year asked the Italian government to account for funding Hacking Team by the Lombardy Region.
The company also figure in the list of “Enemies of the Internet” compiled by Reporters Without Borders. Last summer, another “accident”: Kaspersky Lab and Citizen Lab, observing the server Hacking Team, had discovered a new generation of viruses able to spy on Android and iOS. A malware designed to target activists, human rights defenders, but also journalists and politicians.
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