ROME. What we feared she is happening. Galileo, the spy software hacked in recent days, has turned against its users – the secret services and police forces around the world – and hundreds of “subjects” have been found to be under investigation.
It’s not all because, as He admits the same company that created the software, code-manipulating source put online by hackers, the “suspects” will soon be able to spy on the computers of the same security services, who are now thinking of asking the damage, and then find out what information on Their account was collected. Six days away from the intrusion servers Hacking Team – the Milan-based company with headquarters at Moscow, in Milan, the world leader in the market for spyware – this is the main concern of the investigators.
After breaking very publicly security company – “IT speaking was not an intrusion, it was a massacre,” said a technician – the authors of the attack (still anonymous) published the entire contents of the server on the Internet: 400 giga bytes of material. An ocean of information, still not fully explored. Among these there is also the code-source software developed by Vincenzetti David and his men, by which, with a minimum dimistichezza with matter computer, you can play a version of black, illegal, of Galileo.
Yesterday the first signs that something is moving in this direction. On most sites began popping of software (tools) that are downloaded onto your PC even before the antivirus to be updated, allow to find out if your computer had been “infected”. The official purpose is to defend the victims of spying by countries to “democracy zero” that is now fairly well established, were clients of the company. But it is clear that they can use it all, even “the subjects under investigation” (target) by many investigative bodies worldwide that use the software.
Among them, to take two examples, Americans FBI (very “attentive” to the vicissitudes of the company Vincenzetti, of which the former US ambassador to Rome, Ronald Spogli, was even a minority shareholder) and the Israeli security services through the “Nice Systems Ltd”. The list of target – whose presence in the 400 giga is not certain – is one of the key points of the survey. But when the police has not found any trace. The concern is that soon developed a version of black Galileo is only partially dampened by the same Vincenzetti. In an interview published yesterday by laStampa.it : “Within a few days we will release updates that can overcome the problem.” Vincenzetti then speaks of the matter backdoor, the door left open in the software (even after its sale to the customer).
Officially it serves for maintenance, unofficially Hacking Team (and now anyone who can maneuver code-source) You can access your most sensitive data of its customers. “All lies,” says the boss of Hacking Team. Much the same attitude with which liquid the issue of “customers” unconventional (states that violate human rights: Sudan, Ethiopia and Saudi Arabia) tested however the documents hacked: “This whole thing stems from an attack by a hostile government or at least an organization that has very substantial funds “.
Anyone could create an explosive situation. Which, net of Italian political controversies – “Minniti has disappeared, report in parliament,” said the Hon. Presigiacomo pulling the ball directly to the Secretary with responsibility for intelligence – in the coming days could escalate to know.
From the day of the flight data intelligence, Police, Carabinieri and Guardia di Finanza have blocked any investigation in which It was used spy software. The official numbers are not provided. But the impression, reading the bills issued by the Presidency of the Council and by the various investigative bodies, is that we are talking about several hundred files.
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