The Hackeador hacked: business intelligence software that … – euronews

Hacking Team, an Italian company specialized in selling surveillance software to governments around the world, has proven its own medicine, that is, it has been hacked. 400 GB of information – equivalent to 570 CD – with emails, passwords and viruses have been posted on the Internet, and can be downloaded from a torrent file.

These are some of the things we learned this substantial business intelligence of our mobile phones, computers and other terminals, powered by the great democracies and totalitarian regimes on the planet.

• Mexico is the biggest customer of Hacking Team, followed by Italy, Morocco and Saudi Arabia.

• In Spain, the CNI and the National Police have valid contracts with the Italian company with headquarters in Milan. The National Intelligence Centre, in force since 2010, would be worth 3.4 million euros.

• This is the complete list of customers, according to Privacy International
  Countries from all continents, from large democracies to totalitarian regimes:
  Egypt, Ethiopia, Morocco, Nigeria, Sudan, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, United States, Azserbayán, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Uzbekistan, Cietnam, Australia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Bahrain, Oman, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates.
  According to the published data, Hacking Team would have also been in contact with the French Ministries of Defense and Interior to try to sell their systems.

• On its website hackingteam. com / company talks about their products like any other retailer.

• The reference software, Galileo promises to potential customers to “see through the eyes of its objectives “. In “promotional video” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R63CRBNLE2o, the company explains that can be deployed throughout the country and is able to monitor hundreds of thousands of targets. “A solution” say “that allows encrypted skip through an agent installed directly in the terminal to monitor and transmit encrypted data that leave no trace”.

• Reporters Without Borders “Hacking Team has included in its list of enemies of the Internet: http: //surveillance.rsf.org/es/2013/03/14/hacking-team/ for its Da Vinci tool that allows activating microphones smartphones to enter the operating system of a computer.

• The website publishes the intercept secret software manuals Remote Control System, “despite warnings by the Director of FBI James Comey, “they say,” which ensures that criminals and terrorists could not be more pleased with it. ”
  The document describes the software for technicians and analysts Governments, showing how you can activate cameras, filter emails or record Skype conversations. It also lists a number of techniques to infect terminals using wireless networks, pen drives, streaming video or attachments from emails and deposit them installers virus.

• In your account Twitter Hacking Team often provides links to news about cybersecurity failures needed to argue what are their monitoring programs.