Hacking Team to customers: “Do not use our program-spy”. And … – The Republic

HACKING TEAM seems to have gone haywire. The Milan-based company specializing in software discussed espionage was hit yesterday by a sensational leak, a disclosure of confidential information via Twitter and torrent subtracted, as many point out to 24 hours by the facts, probably over a long period of time. It is 400GB 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. A story on which the Milan prosecutor’s office opened an investigation: the type of offense at the time, is that of unauthorized access to the computer system.

The company attacked in recent hours would ask all customers to which it sold his trojan RCS – ministries, security agencies, police forces and intelligence services across the world – to suspend all transactions in which the software was used. It is spyware also known as Da Vinci or Galileo, like other such programs, it is able to install itself in PC, tablet and smartphone (Android 2.3 to 5.0, BlackBerry OS 4.5 to 7.1, and Windows Phone 8.0 8.1 and iPhone 4. iOS 8.1 xa on which you ran the jailbreak) the opening of a seemingly harmless file where you hide, copy and pass on any information that transits on that device. According to reports gathered by motheboard, the company would have problems with his email since yesterday afternoon and he just had time to trigger a flurry of such communications to all customers.

In the result, those 400GB would be only part of the material in hand the hacker who stole the hackers, who would be able to empty the server of the company in penetrating pc Christian Pozzi and Mauro Romeo , system administrators of Hacking Team, during the hours attacked and derided by many fronts for the poor measures he would take to protect the network and corporate data. In addition to a number of factors, from the logs of links to porn in the PC business in elementary passwords used by the employees of the group. The Twitter account of the first, that, at most hectic operation attempted to defend the company where he worked for a year, was suspended in the late morning and never came back online.

a singular request, to disable the spyware sold worldwide, since, it seems to be one of the files stolen, the company would keep a backdoor in every program sold, it would place that is remote access to maintain the program independently . This item does not seem to have been aware either buyers.

But who can really be behind the attack? Difficult to answer in the absence of a clear claim. That surveillance systems market is indeed a very rich and no holds barred. A Twitter account particularly kept an eye on by several observers as David Gilbert in the International Business Times, named Phineas Fisher (GammaGroupPr), however, appear to know something. This is in effect profile by which last summer was popular 40 GB of documents relating to a British company Gamma International, which is also engaged in the development and sale of programs spy on customers such as Bahrain: the authorities of the small Persian Gulf kingdom they would be used to control certain human rights activists. A profile, that enigmatic Phineas Fisher, who clearly has nothing to do with the company and that even 12 months ago became the protagonist of revelations like those of last weekend. Well, that account for a year has started to publish its silent in recent hours with interventions such as “I will write how the Hacking Team was hacked only will they not understand what happened and will come out of the market.”

Do not claim a full-blown but certainly the link, now available on Pastebin, in which the anonymous author explains in detail the operation last year against Gamma International suggests that who is behind that ‘ Account should also know something more of the case that has devastated the Italian Hacking Team.

Arguments:

Hackers

hacking team

safety

malware

Galileo

da Vinci

Trojans

Twitter

Starring:

Mauro Romeo

Christian Pozzi

David Gilbert

Phineas Fisher