Hacking team admits the attack: “We are out of control.” L … – The Republic

Rome – “We have lost the ability to control who uses our technology. Terrorists, extortionists and others can implement it at will. We believe it is an extremely dangerous, it is now evident that there is a serious threat. ” He says in an official statement Hacking Team, the Italian company that sells software to spy governments around the world, suffered a heavy hacker attack on July 6. And Giampiero Massolo, director of the Department of information security, the summit of the Italian secret service, was called to report to Copasir on the case: “We are under investigation on the impact of the attack suffered by the company on Hacking Team software used by the Italian secret services. The risk is in fact that of our intelligence data have been hacked “.

The attack on HT. The company has been attacked because – according to the hacktivists – the Remote Control System software would be used by dictatorial regimes to monitor human rights activists, dissidents and journalists. A fact supported by at least 400 gigabytes of material taken, but for which the Hacking team does not confirm the authenticity. “Before the attack we could not control who had access to our technology”, and therefore the company could shut down access. But now, the statement continues, “because of the work of criminals, we have lost the ability to control who uses it.”

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“We are considering whether it is possible to contain the damage – he adds – our engineers are working apace to upgrade our software Remote Control System that allows customers to have intelligence information and on criminals. We expect that the virus will soon be able to recognize the software RCS compromise. Our customers have suspended the use of this system has been compromised by the attack. It ‘an important step to protect information and investigative police, “said the statement from the company.

The attack has taken 400 gigabytes of burning material and sometimes grotesque documents, receipts, lists, screenshots of email conversations which show the sensational web of government customers and not only in over 30 countries, including Italy. Many of which are not exactly champions of democracy: Sudan, Morocco, Uzbekistan, among others. On another the Milan prosecutor’s office opened an investigation: the type of offense at the time, is that of unauthorized access to the computer system.

HT on other occasions targeted . It is not the first time that the company ends up at the center of Milan. In early November of 2013 the office in Via della Moscova 13 in Milan, was attacked by a group of antagonists who wrote on the facade of the building this sentence: “We control the lives, steal our future.” Next to the phrase was painted with red paint draws a “V” inside a circle, a symbol used by the galaxy of the dispute in reference to the movie “V for Vendetta”. The company was attacked because in those days the British newspaper The Guardian published the report of the NGO “Privacy International” in which the Milan company appeared together with 337 other companies around the world that would sell systems espionage in 35 countries. The Hacking Team has always reiterated to supply products to fight crime and refused to sell to the countries covered by the blacklist NATO. However, some digital rights groups, such as “Electronic Frontier Foundation” and the “Citizen Lab” of Toronto, have accused of distributing their products in countries like UAE, Morocco and Sudan. This figure is confirmed by its own dossier published by the Guardian , that the company would provide software to Morocco.

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