According to an investigation conducted by Motherboard, the firm is linked to the Italian surveillance
firm Hacking Team.
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.
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.
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.
FireEye learned of the hacks by examining roughly 400 GB of corporate data that was leaked when hackers breached the cybersecurity
firm Hacking Team.
Already this year, computer crackers drubbed the Italian spyware
firm Hacking Team and breached the personal email account of the CIA director.
Not exact matches
The
firm's dealings were blown apart this month when a as - of - yet unknown hacker — or
team — broke into Hacking Team's servers and made off with 400 GB in corporate d
team — broke into
Hacking Team's servers and made off with 400 GB in corporate d
Team's servers and made off with 400 GB in corporate data.
This is the third time Mansoor has been targeted with «lawful intercept» spyware; Mansoor was targeted in 2011 with spyware from FinFisher (based in Germany and the UK), in 2012 with spyware from
Hacking Team (based in Italy), and now in 2016 with what appears to be spyware from NSO Group (based in Israel and reportedly owned by a US
firm).
Paul Motion, partner and head of the Data Protection Defence
Team at leading independent Scottish law
firm BTO Solicitors, commented: «The fine of course relates to TalkTalk's much publicised data
hack on 21 October 2015.
However, predictive coding for defense
teams is like a
hack saw compared to the precise cutting - edge high technologies our
firm offers to plaintiffs.
While the target of the spring
hack on a Toronto law
firm remains a mystery to all but the
firm and the Internet security
team that worked on the problem, in many of the instances in which law
firms have been cyber-attacked,
firms have been facilitating an international merger and acquisition for a client.
«
Hacking Team» is an Italian security
firm that was recently
hacked, itself.
Multiple emails to that address and others given on the
firm's website were returned as undeliverable, and on a follow - up call,
Hacking Team again declined to comment and directed the paper to the broken email address.
In 2013, a Reporters Without Borders report that named
Hacking Team as one of the «corporate enemies of the internet» for its position as a «digital mercenary» prompted a response from the
firm.
Hacking Team is one of a number of security
firms that sell surveillance technology and malware to national governments, enabling them to access the computers of their targets.
securityaffairs.co - iSIGHT Partners
firm uncovered a Russian
hacking team dubbed Sandworm that was running a cyber espionage campaign on NATO and other Government entities.
Samples of Remote Control System, the surveillance tool sold by the Italian outfit
Hacking Team until it was
hacked in 2015, have surfaced and been noticed in 14 countries, the Slovakian security
firm ESET claims.