The digital security community has been reacting this week to leaked documents from italian surveillance
company Hacking Team.
Journalists at the independent ESAT network were first targeted in 2013 by an attacker using what appeared to be Remote Control System spyware belonging to the Italian
company Hacking Team, according to Citizen Lab, which is based at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs.
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«I believe the CEO of a small - to - medium business has three major duties: to make sure there is money in the bank; to get the right people in the right roles; and to guide the long - term vision for the
company,» said Nick Gray, the founder and CEO of Museum
Hack, a
team - building
company in New York City that counts major brands, including Facebook, among its customers.
He was part of the
team that uncovered how a shadowy
company called NSO Group had created the Pegasus
hack and sold access to it to a nasty band of customers across the globe.
When new details emerged in July on how spy agencies used
Hacking Team's services, leaked emails revealed that the security
company boasted of a booby - trapped version of a Bible app to entice the Vatican to buy its services, although it was unclear if the Vatican actually bought the product.
«Given the artefacts we discovered in the malware code and our analysis of the infrastructure, we have a high level of confidence that the developer behind the Skygofree implants is an Italian IT
company that offers surveillance solutions, rather like
Hacking Team,» Kaspersky Lab malware analyst Alexey Firsh said in a statement.
Hacking Team's founder David Vincenzetti has defended his
company amid claims that it's arming repressive governments with tools that violate human rights.
«FireEye has recently uncovered 11 iOS apps within the
Hacking Team's arsenals that utilize Masque Attacks, marking the first instance of targeted iOS malware being used against non-jailbroken iOS devices,» wrote FireEye senior research scientist engineer Zhaofeng Chen on the
company's findings.
The U.S. and China diplomatic
teams remain far apart on a host of issues including Chinese
hacking that targets U.S.
companies, China's buildup of islands in the South China Sea for military purpose, and the pressure American
companies say they've faced in China over the past couple years.
Hackers who breached cybersecurity firm
Hacking Team earlier this month exposed a trove of sensitive emails detailing the inner workings of the
company's clients: Government spy agencies.
Last week, the
company revealed that its former chief security officer Joe Sullivan and his
team failed to disclose a 2016
hack that affected 57 million people.
At Yahoo, he created
teams of programmers who would try to
hack into the
company's own systems in an effort to find the holes.
The
company has noted that
hack attacks are typically the work of
teams of bad actors who pool resources and, crucially, knowledge.
Yahoo's top lawyer, Ronald Bell, resigned from the
company, after the board of directors concluded that Yahoo's legal
team did notsufficiently pursue information about the
hacks.
Another search term that yields plentiful results at the
Hacking Team dump is «halo,» the name the Saudis intended to give the new
company.
Spyware - carrying drones were being discussed by Insitu, a division of Boeing and now - disgraced malware firm
Hacking Team, according to leaked emails from the recent breach of the Italian
company which have been posted on WikiLeaks, Engadget reported.
In response to allegations that
Hacking Team sold tools to blacklisted countries like Sudan, Vincenzetti said the
company has separated business relations with Sudan, Russia and Ethiopia.
In addition to the tools and exploits published in the
Hacking Team dump, their financial records were dumped, which detailed how they'd had dealings with private
companies as well as nefarious and repressive governments.
Pressed to respond to claims that
Hacking Team's tools help governments abuse citizens» privacy, Vincenzetti said the
company helps government's fight crime in the digital age with its surveillance tools.
In the wake of our 2014 reporting, we also sent an August 2014 open letter to
Hacking Team, which inquired, inter alia, about investigation by the
company into the reported misuse of the software against Ethiopian journalists in the United States.62 We posed further questions about their due diligence and accountability mechanisms, while applauding their efforts to incorporate human rights considerations into their customer policy.
Privacy groups have welcomed a rare chance to potentially look inside the workings of a cyber-surveillance
company such as
Hacking Team.
According to leaked
Hacking Team RCS documentation, installation of RCS updates requires a user license file from the
company.54 Moreover,
Hacking Team states that without its continued support to a client, its product «soon becomes useless.»
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team at the
company for an internal
hack day.
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companies like
Hacking Team that are selling hacking - for - hire services, and reports that North Korean hackers are launching their operations from a Thai hotel are all examples of proxy hackers working under indirect influence,» h
Hacking Team that are selling
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hacking - for - hire services, and reports that North Korean hackers are launching their operations from a Thai hotel are all examples of proxy hackers working under indirect influence,» he said.
Now, the
company also mentioned that this phone was submitted to «rigorous
hacking tests» in order to make sure that the phone is secure enough, and not even the HackerOne
team was able to get any info off of the device.
RedLock's CSI
team have exposed the same
hack of AWS for Bitcoin mining at
companies Gemalto and Aviva in October 2017.
And with Monday's
Hacking Team revelations, it clearly shows that many organizations are working with
companies which use sophisticated malware in attempts to compromise consumer software.
The hacker who
hacked Hacking Team posted a lengthy description of how he broke into the
company and stole everything.
In the meantime,
Hacking Team is scrambling to minimize the damage this
hack and data leak is doing to the
company.
On Sunday, July 5, over 400 GB of information was publicly exposed from the Italian firm
Hacking Team, a
company dedicated to the commercialization of government spying software.
Four of the certificates were issued by Thawte to four different
companies, and two are personal certificates issued to Valeriano Bedeschi (
Hacking Team co-founder) and someone named Raffaele Carnacina,» Kafka wrote.
Virus and malware protection
company Kaspersky Labs noticed
Hacking Team's app about a year ago.
In July 2016, a Cyprus - based
company named Tablem bought 20 % of
Hacking Team's shares.
A so - called legitimate app called Remote Control System (RCS) developed by Italian
company «
Hacking Team» appears to be spyware that can infect Android, iOS, BlackBerry, Windows Phone, Windows and Mac OS.
Hacking Team, the
company now equally known for selling intrusive spyware to governments and getting royally
hacked, has words for people who disagree with its habit of peddling powerful cyberweapons to regimes with terrible human rights records: What's a «repressive» regime, anyway?
The success of Ettercap led to
Hacking Team, and now attention from rival hackers who have renamed the
company's Twitter account to «
Hacked Team.»
Hacking Team, a
company that helps police
hack citizens, has been
hacked itself.
Upon the discovery of the
hacking attack, the Youbit
team told its clients that the
company is working closely with local authorities and the South Korean law enforcement to evaluate and investigate the security breach.
The 2015 breach of spyware vendor
Hacking Team seemed like it should have ended the
company.
securityaffairs.co - ESET collected evidence of
Hacking Team «activity post-
hack, the
company published an interesting analysis based on post
hack samples found in the wild.
The
company rose to prominence when the small
team was hired by the Mt. Gox bankruptcy trustees as the official investigators of the $ 460 million
hack.
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