Hacking Team

At the same time, according to the OIG report, the chief of the FBI's Remote Operations Unit (the FBI's elite hacking team, called ROU) knows “that one of the vendors that he worked closely with was almost 90 percent of the way toward a solution that the vendor had been working on for many months.”.

The NSA's top hacking team, Tailored Access Operations (TAO), became the subject of “one of the worst security debacles ever to befall American intelligence.” The apparent carelessness of an NSA employee, who took classified material home, allowed Kaspersky Lab and the so-called “Shadow Brokers” ...

Hacking Team was condemned in 2015 when a whistleblower leaked, “the program was sold to countries that used it to spy on activists or political opponents, such as Morocco or Sudan. That is why it has been denounced by human rights organizations. The publication of HT's emails revealed that the list ...

Prior to his forced internet sabbatical, Assange had been tweeting on a number of topics, including criticism hurled at him from a UK government official and a link to an article on interactions between Italy's Hacking Team and Ecuador's SENAIN intelligence agency. He also retweeted articles on Germany's ...

Another foreign firm involved in a similar controversy is Hacking Team, which supplies offensive intrusion and surveillance capabilities to governments, law enforcement agencies and private corporations. It makes a mockery of rights and the concept of democracy by selling spyware to oppressive regimes ...

But Grey Heron does have a history: The company emerged from controversial spyware firm Hacking Team, despite Grey Heron not mentioning these links publicly, Motherboard has learned. The move, it appears, may be to distance Grey Heron from the notorious, and perhaps damaged, brand of Hacking ...

Yet another nation-state hacking team has been spotted compromising a network router to get to its ultimate targets: this time, it's the infamous Russian APT known as DragonFly 2.0 that was called out by the US federal government last week for hacking into US energy networks. Researchers from Cylance ...

Researchers choose not to name the countries to prevent potentially incorrect attributions based on the detections, but said the recently spotted malware is indeed the work of Hacking Team developers, and not the result of source code reuse by unrelated actors, according to a March 9 ESET blog post.

Four of the certificates were issued by Thawte to four different companies, and two are personal certificates issued to Valeriano Bedeschi (Hacking Team co-founder) and someone named Raffaele Carnacina," Kafka wrote. Another feature common with the pre-hack RCS was the use of VMProtect to make ...

When the tables turned in 2015 with Hacking Team itself suffering a damaging attack, the reported use of RCS by oppressive regimes was confirmed. With 400Gb of internal data – including the once-secret list of customers, internal communications, and spyware source code – leaked online, Hacking Team ...

The Hacking Team is back to developing spyware as previously unreported samples of its infamous surveillance tool, the Remote Control System (RCS), were spotted in the wild throughout fourteen countries, according to ESET researchers. The RCS features include the ability to extract files from a target's ...

Since being founded in 2003, the Italian spyware vendor Hacking Team gained notoriety for selling surveillance tools to governments and their agencies across the world. The capabilities of its flagship product, the Remote Control System (RCS), include extracting files from a targeted device, intercepting ...

Grey Heron is a new cyber-arms dealer offering to sell hacking tools to governments; it is fronted by Eric Rabe, who previously represented the disgraced, hacked Italian malware company Hacking Team, notorious for selling spy tools to governments that used them to target dissidents who were tortured ...

An elite Russian hacking team, a historic ransomware attack, an espionage group in the Middle East, and countless small time cryptojackers all have one thing in common. Though their methods and objectives vary, they all lean on leaked NSA hacking tool EternalBlue to infiltrate target computers and ...

Only later did the Dutch realize that they had penetrated a hacking team which was using the university as cover. This hacking team employed malware and techniques associated with what cybersecurity specialists have termed Advanced Persistent Threat 29, or APT 29, also known as “Cozy Bear” (a term ...

There's no doubt it is using technology for surveillance, nor is there any doubt that it is paying exorbitant sums for it, as seen by various contracts made public and emails related to the government's purchases of Hacking Team software that leaked a few years back. How the government uses the technology, ...

The Russian group is believed to be linked to several high-stakes cyber breaches, including breaches on the Democratic National Committee, the World Anti-Doping Agency, and the International Olympic Committee. Germany is investigating a security breach in its defense and interior ministry's private ...

The Russian group is believed to be linked to several high-stakes cyber breaches, including breaches on the Democratic National Committee, the World Anti-Doping Agency, and the International Olympic Committee. Germany is investigating a security breach in its defense and interior ministry's private ...

based mortgage technology and information security company Access Business Technologies. “They are more like your marketing team than a hacking team. Mortgage companies are being targeted. Phishing schemes are e-mailing every loan officer at a company asking for their username and password.

As Cisco's Talos security division pointed out in a blog post Monday, the malware also resembled a tool used by North Korea's Lazarus hacking team, wiping a target computer's data by destroying exactly as many bytes of a file as the North Korean malware, sharing similarities in structure and referring to a ...

Pyongyang has a surprisingly powerful cyber-espionage team at its disposal, according to a new report. The news: Security researchers at FireEye have published research describing a hacking group called APT37, or Reaper. FireEye says that there is “high confidence that [its] activity is carried out on ...

Last month, we reported on hackers' accelerating efforts to get full control of the Nintendo Switch, allowing the popular system to run homebrew code and, potentially, pirated games. This week, the hacking team fail0verflow claimed a major advance in that effort, tweeting a picture showing Linux booting up ...

The company had received a special recommendation from a trusted buyer—which Desautels refers to only as “a very well known entity here in the US”—and so Netragard began dealing to a Milan-based firm known as Hacking Team, which had done business with the FBI, among other US agencies.

According to financial records obtained by Motherboard, a company based in Cyprus called Tablem Limited took control of 20 percent of the equity of Hacking Team as of 2016, equivalent to around 44,000 euros (about $55,000) of the company's total nominal share value, which at the time was 223,572 ...