Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data
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#2Poetic justice. Serves the bastards right. I'm sure hackers are flocking to the download in search of awesome tools. If they're there, then we might see independent, malware authors building some interesting things to produce headaches with. Interesting times continue.
Note that many of us in INFOSEC said years ago that these offensive, cyber companies developing weapons was a risk to us if they double-dealed or got breached. Their weapons which we (and others) funded might get turned against us. Depending on what's in the torrent, that scenario might begin playing out.
Re: Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data
#3Good. Serves them right.
Normally I'm a bit more reserved when a company I dislike gets hacked, but take a look at Hacking Team's history and you'll probably want to celebrate too.
Re: Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data
#4Poetic justice. Serves the bastards right. I'm sure hackers are flocking to the download in search of awesome tools. If they're there, then we might see independent, malware authors building some interesting things to produce headaches with. Interesting times continue. Note that many of us in INFOSEC said years ago that these offensive, cyber companies developing weapons was a risk to us if they double-dealed or got…
Looks like they're double dealing, too. Invoices to Egypt and other oppressive governments have already been found in the torrent dump.
Christopher Soghoian on Twitter: "Just from Torrent File listing, Hacking Team's customers includes South Korea, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Lebanon, and Mongolia."
https://mobile.twitter.com/csoghoian/status/6178628794050641...
Edit - just read Christopher Soghoian's entire Twitter stream for the juicy bits. It's bad news for Hacking Team:
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Re: Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data
#6> ...Hacking Team's customers include South Korea, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Lebanon, and Mongolia. Yet, the company maintains that it does not do business with oppressive governments.
I was curious if those were all oppressive governments, especially since South Korea was included. According to a couple indices on Wikipedia [1] South Korea is pretty free (only the press freedom index is lower than America's), and Mongolia's not so bad (political freedom, but weakness in press and economic freedom). Pretty hard to lump South Korea in with Saudi Arabia or Kazakhstan.
Re: Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data
#7> ...Hacking Team's customers include South Korea, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Lebanon, and Mongolia. Yet, the company maintains that it does not do business with oppressive governments. I was curious if those were all oppressive governments, especially since South Korea was included. According to a couple indices on Wikipedia [1] South Korea is pretty free (only the press freedom index is lower than America's),…
I had to read that twice and figured I missed last week's Two Minutes of Hate.
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#8Direct link to the announcement tweet https://twitter.com/hackingteam/status/617852091390935040
Re: Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data
#9Poetic justice. Serves the bastards right. I'm sure hackers are flocking to the download in search of awesome tools. If they're there, then we might see independent, malware authors building some interesting things to produce headaches with. Interesting times continue. Note that many of us in INFOSEC said years ago that these offensive, cyber companies developing weapons was a risk to us if they double-dealed or got…
Looks like they're double dealing, too. Invoices to Egypt and other oppressive governments have already been found in the torrent dump. Christopher Soghoian on Twitter: "Just from Torrent File listing, Hacking Team's customers includes South Korea, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Lebanon, and Mongolia." https://mobile.twitter.com/csoghoian/status/6178628794050641... Edit - just read Christopher Soghoian's entire Twit…
I posted a link to his stream with the rest on Schneier's blog. The stream is... Hacking Team's own answer to Failblog. I only wish I had 400GB of storage handy with a good network in case it gets taken down or something. Hope people are copying the shit out of it.
Note: There torrent is so big and has so much stuff that this laptop I'm using (few years old) was lagging on scrollbar with fan on full blast. Had to close it lol.
Re: Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data
#10Good. Serves them right. Normally I'm a bit more reserved when a company I dislike gets hacked, but take a look at Hacking Team's history and you'll probably want to celebrate too.
Not just hacked: this is almost on the Sony level. They got...
H A C K E D !!!!!
Maybe we'll get lucky and they'll face bankruptcy with their stuff available for free now. :)