Hacking Team, in e-mails stolen many names – ANSA.it

WikiLeaks published the massive treasure of stolen corporate email to Hacking Team , the Italian company that makes software -spia for governments hit by a heavy hacker attack on July 6. “They are more than 1 million messages,” says Wikileaks on its website noting that Hacking Team is over in their sights in the past with the SpyFiles. “These email – explains Wikileaks – show the inner workings of the controversial company Global Monitoring .”

Hundreds of names of politicians – Matteo Renzi to Silvio Berlusconi – of institutions, by the secret services of the police, the Guardia di Finanza the Police , recur in the company’s internal email. Recurs several times the name of the Prime Minister – as well as that of Berlusconi and many other politicians – in a series of emails that give account of current news policy.

A lot of attention is naturally given to cybersecurity and emerge also exchanges of visits in Sudan, one of the non-democratic states which – according to the indictment of several activists – Hacking Team would sell its spy software. “The activities to be carried out – according to an email on Sudan – will: give a ‘follow up’ to the training done here (which was pretty much basic), giving continuity to the techniques of attack and finally also check the status of the system in the light migration we were doing and to check the level of security (firewall, etc.). ” But the company also looks forward to another nation at high risk, Libya. In an email last May 25 HT men talk about the possibility of doing business in the country.

“For Libya – says one of the group – are skeptical, is a failed state, we can ask the ‘ authorization but really do not know if and ‘a country back list. Maybe start informing him about the documentation that must be stopped by the CUSTOMER GOVERNMENT for our sales? Then we can proceed, the most of Libya’ in black list and do not sell. The Italian government decides, the Italian Government has the best intelligence that we can and must draw to an authorization, and ‘the law’.

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