http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/07/massive-leak-reveals-hacking-teams-most-private-moments-in-messy-detail/
By Dan Goodin
Ars Technica
July 6, 2015
Privacy and human rights advocates are having a field day picking through
a massive leak purporting to show spyware developer Hacking Team's most
candid moments, including documents that appear to contradict the
company's carefully scripted PR campaign.
"Imagine this: a leak on WikiLeaks showing YOU explaining the evilest
technology on earth! :-)," Hacking Team CEO David Vincenzetti wrote in a
June 8 e-mail to company employees including Walter Furlan, whose LinkedIn
profile lists him as the international sales engineer of the spyware
developer. "You would be demonized by our dearest friends the activists,
and normal people would point their fingers at you."
Other documents suggested the US FBI was among the customers paying for
software that allowed targets to be surreptitiously surveilled as they
used computers or smartphones. According to one spreadsheet first reported
by Wired, the FBI paid Hacking Team more than $773,226.64 since 2011 for
services related to the Hacking Team product known as "Remote Control
Service," which is also marketed under the name "Galileo." One spreadsheet
column listed simply as "Exploit" is marked "yes" for a sale in 2012, an
indication Hacking Group may have bundled some sort of attack code that
remotely hijacked targets' computers or phones. Previously, the FBI has
been known to have wielded a Firefox exploit to decloak child pornography
suspects using Tor.
Security researchers have also scoured leaked Hacking Team source code for
suspicious behavior. Among the findings, the embedding of references to
child porn in code related to the Galileo.
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