A victim of an espionage company widespread piracy – BFMTV.COM

The NGO Reporters Without Borders termed the “enemy of the Internet ” in 2013. In the night from Sunday to Monday the Italian SME Hacking Team, which provides governments monitoring tools , was the victim of an attack of great magnitude. Nearly 400 GB of files, some classified as confidential, were stolen and posted her own account via twitter of the company, on which one could read: “Since we have nothing to hide, we publish all our emails, our files and source code … “

A list of cumbersome client

The files posted on the night revealed a list of countries the company’s customers with among them Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan, Russia. More embarrassing, one of the released confidential documents reveal that the company has a contract of 480,000 euros with Sudan, while the company had claimed not to cooperate with the regime in Khartoum, according to a information relayed by Numerama .

The FBI and other federal agencies have also had occasional recourse to the services of the Italian company, according to information reported by the Paris . Last March the Citizen Lab research laboratory of the University of Toronto (Canada), had mentioned possible liability Hacking Team in espionage of journalists and activists of human rights.

The main software developed by Hacking Team is a Trojan horse dubbed Remote Control System (also known as the Da Vinci or Galileo). It allows the firm to intercept information on specific navigation histories, but also to capture their communications over Skype (instant chat software), their file exchanges and would even activate their webcams and remote microphones.

The company denies block

We do not know at the moment neither responsible for this attack, nor his motives. For now the company denies outright the charges against her. One of his engineers had said on Twitter that “most of the assailants that say about our society is wrong. Stop spreading lies about the services we offer ” before his own account is hijacked. By Hacking Team security measure has its website offline.