Not only the Government was interested in spyware, too … – Perfil.com

The Italian software company Spy Hacking Team (HT), which negotiated this year the sale of a sophisticated system of espionage to the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI), also contacted private companies in the country and won lucrative contracts elsewhere in Latin America.
The product it makes it possible to remotely control an electronic device. So it lets watch as altering the information that is on your computer, phone or tablet “infected”. It costs more than a million dollars to allow control devices fifty and paid for “licenses” used, this is spied devices.
In 2012 the sales agents of the Italian company evaluated a possible agreement with Telefonica, which expressed interest in acquiring a system through intermediaries, as it arises from internal mails of HT. But, according to information leaked by WikiLeaks, Telefónica could not guarantee the signing of an agreement certificate by officials of the Argentine government and the sale did not happen.

The first commercial contact with Argentina, makes three years, was marked by failures to HT. There are numerous references to problems such as lack of internet for exposures to Argentine clients or problems implementing the spy system developed by the firm in Argentina phones with SIM card.
However, the company continued to seek new business opportunities in the country. In 2013, a company with no record company in the country or contact references beyond its website called for an “urgent meeting”. The intriguing name of this company is illuminati Lab. Although have offices in Argentina, the company was identified as an intermediary of the government of Ecuador in different mails.
Another business contacts they were maintained with the consultant Argentine Ivan Sanchez in cybersecurity. In dialogue with PROFILE Sanchez explained that during 2014 acted as intermediary for a possible acquisition of a security force in Brazil. “The sale was frustrated by the elections of that year, but software that was acquired by the main security forces in the region, Mexico sales of HT amounted to one hundred million dollars,” he said.

Also in 2014 the company WisePlant contacted from Argentina to HT. The head of the email exchange PROFILE told it was “an order of contribution to a government client in Argentina, but was unsuccessful.” Finally, the key to business with the state came from the hand of Tamce SRL, its CEO, Nicholas Ruggiero, came to show the product to Oscar Parrilli last April.