Posted on 07/06/2015 5:43:59 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
One of the technology world’s most notorious providers of surveillance and intrusion software has found itself on the wrong end of an embarrassing hack.
A range of sensitive documents belonging to Italy-based Hacking Team, which is known for working with governments worldwide, appeared to leak out over the weekend, including email communications and client lists. The hackers, who remain unidentified at this time, also took over the group’s Twitter account, using it to post screenshots of emails and other details, as CSO first reported.
Hacking Team is a mysterious organization which has long been thought to sell tracking and hacking software to governments, particularly those in developing markets. The organization describes itself as providing “effective, easy-to-use offensive technology to the worldwide law enforcement and intelligence communities”. One tool that it is known to offer is Davinci, a service marketed at law enforcement organization that can purportedly access SMS, emails, web browsing and more to locate specific targets.
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I thought government had folks on payroll for that....
Probably see a lot more of this after the chinese go hold of everything needed to impersonate 20 million people.
I’d put my money on “disgruntled ex-employee”. At the very least, a competent hacker would know how to hide their tracks.
I’m guessing somebody got social engineered. It’s as good as having an insider, and far easier
Or deliberately leave a trail pointing to another, or pointing to yet another. Pointer to a pointer. In computer terms trivial stuff.
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