A spectacular leak of information from a surveillance Italian firm brought out the details of cyberattacks launched by governments around the world committed to the intelligence chiefs of governments ranging from Mexico to South Korea. An intelligence chief has resigned and has lifted the curtain on the era espionage iPhone.
More than a million emails circulated on the internet after filtration July 5 show that the company Hacking Team sold its software spy the FBI and Russian intelligence. He collaborated with authoritarian governments in the Middle East and advertised between police departments of American suburbs. He even tried to sell their products to the Vatican, while elaborating a Bible app to infect computers devout people.
Mexico is one of the most active users of technology, according to the list filtered customer. In Ecuador, there was a scandal to emerge alleged evidence that the National Intelligence Secretariat uses the
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The case “is a mini-Snowden” said Israeli security researcher Tal Be’ery, comparing the impact of filtration distributing secret documents of the US NSA intelligence by Edward excontratista . Snowden
Be’ery, like many others, suspected security agencies in the world are engaged in cybersquatting, but what is remarkable, he said, is “the ubiquity: use it on every continent, both democracies and dictatorships “.
Before distributing bills Sudanese intelligence service and a Russian arms manufacturer, several critics, including an MEP, have questioned whether the company violated international sanctions. A list of clients that includes Uzbekistan, Egypt and Azerbaijan fears Privacy International groups like the spy software is used to muzzle dissent. Additionally, messages like “we love your product” sent by bailiffs, police and prosecutors across the United States indicate that the forces of law and order want to test the program.
Operation Hacking Team
Software Hacking Team was used by 97 spy agencies or research in 35 countries, said the head of South Korean intelligence Lee Byoung Ho, the explanation to Parliament on Tuesday when it came to the light that his agency was one of the customers of the company based in Milan.
Hacking Team did not immediately respond to requests for comment, but the company refuses to have violated sanctions or committed any crime.
Speaking to Italian newspaper La Stampa over the weekend, the manager David Vincenzetti said the program is used to fight terror and “discover the lone wolves”.
” We will’re the good guys, “he said.
As revealed messages, the program Hacking Team, called Remote Control System (remote control), comes to white through malicious links, documents” poisoned “and pornography. Booby traps programs tailored to all targets are created; Hacking seems that my Team is developing called “Quran” (Quran) and “DailyBible” (BibliaDiaria).
The emails reveal that the spy agency of Kazakhstan tried to get the Samsung phone chat a white and the Saudi Interior Ministry used an infected as a tracking signal receiver. They also reveal how the anti-corruption authority of Mongolia tried to steal the password for Facebook from one person to record your typing and how the Czech police turned the microphone on a BlackBerry device eavesdropping. Vincenzetti told La Stampa that spyware even could automatically photograph a person when effected a phone call
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Legislators in Italy and the Czech Republic have questioned police and intelligence chiefs on using the program. The chief of intelligence Cypriot, Andreas Pentaras resigned to reveal who used the program.
They rarely know who are the targets of espionage, but in one of the leaked emails, dated December 15 2014 Vincenzetti suggests that sometimes has a pretty good idea of who it is.
“Sometimes called me, say, the deputy head of the Italian police and says, ‘Congratulations, Mr. Vincenzetti! ‘ I say, ‘Thank you, sir, could you tell me what you mean?’ ‘I mean, what you will read tomorrow’s headlines!’ He laughs and hangs up. The next day I read that they have finally arrested a Mafia boss, the seemingly impenetrable mystery of a brutal murder has been solved and the murderer arrested, etc. “.
Vincenzetti hinted that hid the rest of the world cyberattacks governments.
The authorities” never reveal how did so because they want to protect our technology and protect us, “he said
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For researchers like Be’ery , filtration has enabled them to understand as never before how hack governments. For advocates of human rights, confirms fears about state surveillance. Additionally, for the victims of Hacking Team program like the known Emirati blogger Ahmed Mansoor- has been a good opportunity to rejoice with schadenfreude.
“Now they understand how it feels when someone intrudes on your private life “, he said. (I)
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