Hacking Team is an Italian company "famous" for helping the government monitor citizens. They sell intrusion and surveillance tools to governments and law enforcement agencies including Morocco, Ethiopia and the US Drug Control Agency. And these two days they were hacked!

"Hacking Team" is reversed by "Hacked"

As a hacker team and company specializing in surveillance technology, The Hacking Team (hereinafter referred to as HT) experienced the experience of internal data being made public today.

Because of HT's business behavior and the media monitoring tool they developed for the government, Da Vinci, Reporters Without Borders（ Reporters Without Borders ）List HT as "Enemies of the Internet index",

At present, it is not clear which organization attacked HT, but the attackers released up to 400GB (including client files, contracts, finance, etc.) of internal files, source code, and e-mail to the public for download.

In addition, the attacker hacked into the Twitter account of the Hacking Team, defaced the logo, profile and hacker The internal information obtained was released to the public through the victim HT's Twitter.

Event progress (update)

·Christopher Soghoian said that from the published documents, HT's customers mainly include South Korea, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Lebanon and Mongolia. However, the company insists that it does not do business with authoritarian governments.

·Researchers have begun to search for information about traded goods from exposed documents. One of the project invoices is displayed as 58000 euros, and the object is Egypt. It is used for the RCS exp portal of HT.

· Motherboard He disclosed that the US Drug Control Agency (DEA) secretly purchased spyware from HT at a price of 2.4 million dollars.

·The leaked invoice shows that Ethiopia paid 10 million birr (Ethiopian currency) for remote control system, professional services and communication equipment transactions.

·HT once said, "Do you intend to use some Oday vulnerability attacks in your government level monitoring software? Then add 50000 every year."

·Some reporters directly reported and attacked HT through Twitter hacker Get in touch and ask if they can comment. The initial response of hackers was: "Of course."

· Many security researchers and human rights activists consider the attack ironic:

Christopher Soghoian: The best transparency report ever, @ Hacking Team

HT competitor Finfisher

Almost a year ago, another technology monitoring company, Finfisher, encountered the same Hacker intrusion , revealing 400GB internal files.

Same as HT, Finfisher sells monitoring software to law enforcement agencies around the world. Once their software is secretly installed on the target mobile phone or computer, it can be used to monitor the target, such as phone calls, text messages Skype or Mail. The operator can also open the target webcam and extract files from the device.

According to an internal email leaked today, At that time, HT was very proud of the attack on Finfisher. "A competitor who wanted to be our competitor has been seriously attacked".

Customer coordinate large exposure

According to the internal files leaked by the attacker on Sunday night, HT customers exist in some of the following locations:

Egypt, Ethiopia, Morocco, Nigeria, Sudan
Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, the United States
Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand
Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Australia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary
Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Bahrain, Oman
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Eric Rabe, spokesman of HT, did not immediately reply to the reporter's phone calls and emails to ask whether the leaked information was legal.

A hacker project worth about 400000 yuan

Among the shared seeds, email is the largest, nearly 200G ：

It is said that a project in the seed is worth 58000 euros. How much is it? Allow minor calculation:

Hacking Team leaked information

Link: http://pan.baidu.com/s/1eQhemo6 Password: cgjg

Finally, let's take a look at this infamous Hacker Tools ——The introduction of "Da Vinci" is very cool!

We believe that a steady stream of "good information" will come to us when the 400GB news is revealed. FreeBuf will continue to track the progress of the event and update it in a timely manner

From: FreeBuf

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