In February 2014, they had reported similar targeting of journalists, again with the telltale signs of the RCS spyware.ĭespite Hacking Team’s assurance that “we will refuse to provide or we will stop supporting our technologies to governments or government agencies that … we believe have used HT technology to facilitate gross human rights abuses”, it appears that it continued to provide the software to Ethiopia, even after CitizenLab unveiled abuses over a year earlier. It was the second such report from CitizenLab. A report from CitizenLab, based at the University of Toronto, found that several journalists based in Washington DC, working for an Ethiopian diaspora news channel called ESAT, had been infected with what appeared to be Hacking Team’s RCS spyware. Most recently, in March 2015, Hacking Team was accused of providing the tools used by the Ethiopian government to spy on journalists and activists based overseas. When we find reports of such issues, we conduct an investigation to determine if action is needed.” “We also go to some lengths to monitor reports of use of our software in ways that might be inappropriate or illegal. Following the RSF report, it said that “Hacking Team goes to great lengths to assure that our software is not sold to governments that are blacklisted by the EU, the US, Nato and similar international organisations or any ‘repressive’ regime”. Throughout, Hacking Team has insisted that it does not sell to repressive regimes. If that happened, “their failure to keep track of the exports of their own software means they did not care if their technology was misused and did not care about the vulnerability of those who defend human rights,” the report said.
And if they didn’t directly sell to authoritarian regimes, they were almost as guilty, of letting dangerous tools fall into the hands of malicious actors. “If these companies decided to sell to authoritarian regimes, they must have known that their products could be used to spy on journalists, dissidents and netizens,” it warned. The report warned that those companies all sold products used to commit violations of human rights and freedom of information.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) published an extensive report into ‘digital mercenaries’ such as Hacking Team, who provide the technical expertise which underpins Snowden-era electronic surveillance Photograph: PhotoAlto / Alamy/Alamy All of them, it said, “sell products that are liable to be used by governments to violate human rights and freedom of information”. In it, the group named five “corporate enemies of the internet”: Hacking Team, Britain’s Gamma Group, Germany’s Trovicor, France’s Amesys, and America’s Blue Coat Systems. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) published an extensive report into “digital mercenaries” such as Hacking Team, who provide the technical expertise which underpins Snowden-era electronic surveillance. All that changed this week when its own security was compromised, to the tune of 400GB of its data published online.īack up for a minute to 2013. It didn’t disclose its clients, the technology behind its software, or the sort of work it was contracted to do, citing the need for privacy and security. Right at your fingertips.”īut apart from the clarity of its name, Hacking Team was just as opaque as the other companies in its industry. Enter his wireless network and tackle tactical operations with ad-hoc equipment designed to operate while on the move … Remote Control System: the hacking suite for governmental interception. The company’s promotional material advertises its abilities: “Hack into your targets with the most advanced infection vectors available.
RUSH TEAM HACKS 2015 INSTALL
It sells its Remote Control System (RCS) software to law enforcement and national security agencies around the world, letting them hack into targets’ computers and mobile devices, install backdoors, and monitor them with ease.
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