Italian Spyware Developer Hacked Hacking Team

Attackers have managed the controversial Italian surveillance operation and spyware developer Hacking Team to hack and thereby some have 400GB to 500GB of data captured, including financial data, software source code, e-mail and much more sensitive matters.

Hacking Team is a company that develops spyware for governments in recent years and was regularly in the news . The company's spyware would include being deployed by totalitarian regimes against activists. As Amnesty International showed a tool developed to detect the spyware Hacking Team. How the attackers, calling themselves Team Hacked call, access the data received is unknown. The stolen data is now distributed via .torrent files.

Evidenced by the now leaked information that the company customers in countries like Ethiopia, Sudan, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Oman, Saudi Arabia has and the United Arab Emirates, but also Switzerland, Spain, Poland, Luxembourg, Germany and the United States found in the customer base, as on Hacker News reported, and would from a post on Pastebin appear. An anonymous source leaves in front of Vice Magazine that the attackers have managed to steal all company.

Last year was the German-British Gamma International, developer of the FinFisher spyware same. The website was hacked and then published attackers database, ultimately to parliamentary questions resulted in Netherlands. In an e-mail now to Hacking Team was captured late CEO and founder of the Italian surveillance company David Vincenzetti, bending over his rival hacked off. "A wannabe competitor of ours is severely compromised," he writes. Hacking Team has not yet responded to the burglary, which about nine days ago was announced.

Update

By now appear more and more details about the stolen data. There is an overview of the contents of the torrent file online appeared. Privacy activist Christopher Soghoian reports that the Italian company used illegal software, as there was a cracked version of a popular analysis tool found in the download. Another Twitter announced that the software Hacking Team vulnerable for SQL Injection.

Malwarebytes Provides Software Pirates Free Year License

To accommodate Internet using a pirated version of the anti-virus security software company Malwarebytes an " amnesty program started. " According to the virus fighter can prevent users from being tricked into buying a counterfeit version of Malwarebytes.

Also, it may be that there is a problem with the key being used. Therefore, users can now specify in the paid version of the software, how they obtained the product and then generate a new license for Anti-Malware Pro or Premium. In addition, users of 12 months may make free Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Premium use. Some users, however, not to speak of the action and want their money back, because software pirates in this way with a free version "rewarded".

In a statement sets Marcin Kleczynski, CEO and founder of Malwarebytes, that in the beginning in the development of anti-virus software unsafe algorithm was selected to generate the license keys. As a result, it was and is the generation of an illegal license key very simple. The problem with illegal license keys is that they sometimes "collide" with legal license keys, Kleczynski notes. Meanwhile, there is a new licensing system used will be rolled out in phases.

"The only problem is that we have millions of users where we sold keys to, or where a reseller has sold keys, or we have issued keys without placing them in. It's a mess, and as a consumer you have the right to to be angry, " writes Kleczynski on the private forum. Therefore, the virus fighter first see which keys are active and by whom they are used. In the case of software pirates, they will be able to use free of Malwarebytes at most one year. The CEO noted that he would like all keys would want to process manually and verify, but that millions of license keys is impossible.