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Hacking Team

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18 articles stable

Hacking Team has appeared in 18 articles since 2015-04. Coverage peaked in 2015Q3 with 6 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Italian, Coinbase, FinFisher, Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai.

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Coverage Timeline

2022-06-25
TechCrunch 22 related

Google details the commercial spyware Hermit, used in Kazakhstan and Italy, targeting Android and iOS; the iOS version has six exploits, including two zero-days

Saturday, June 25, 2022 // (IG): BB //Weekly Sponsor: Dataminr Deeba Ahmed / HackRead : ISPs Helping Attackers Install Hermit Spyware on Smartphones- Google Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer : Spyware ...

2021-07-25
Zero Day 4 related

Uncertainty about the nature of the list of 50K potential Pegasus targets created confusion and controversy, but doesn't negate the investigation's key findings

which used NSO tech to spy on dissidents— to expand surveillance into the UK.https://www.theguardian.com/ ... Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / @lorenzofb : NSO Group is now blaming Palestinian activist...

2019-03-02
Motherboard 11 related

Coinbase's acquisition of Neutrino, co-founded by the key people behind the controversial hacking tools vendor Hacking Team, sparks a #DeleteCoinbase campaign

Jordan Pearson / Motherboard :

2018-02-08
Motherboard

Sources detail Azimuth Security, a boutique hacking shop finding 0-days for Tor, iOS, Android, more, which counts agencies from Five Eyes countries as clients

Motherboard : Tweets: @lorenzofb , @josephfcox , @josephfcox , @josephfcox , @lorenzofb , @josephfcox , @josephfcox , @motherboard , @lorenzofb , @lorenzofb , @cauchon , @lorenzofb , @mattbraga , @ja...

2016-07-24
Motherboard 1 related

Phineas Fisher, the hacker behind the Hacking Team and FinFisher breaches, talks about his motives and views of the hacking tool industry

A little bit over a year ago, the normally quiet Twitter account of Hacking Team, an Italian company that sells spying tools to governments all over the world, started acting weird.

2016-04-19
Motherboard

A look at the Latin American countries that bought Hacking Team exploit packages and then used them to spy on political opposition

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard : Tweets: @lorenzofb , @decespedes and @rondeibert Tweets: Lorenzo Franceschi-B / @lorenzofb : Here's how the vigilante hacker only known as Phineas Fisher...

2015-07-21
Ars Technica 1 related

Hacking Team goes to war against former employees, suspects some helped hackers

As surveillance startup's sales grew, so did internal strife at Hacking Team.  —  Italian prosecutors have begun a criminal investigation of six former employees of the embattled company Hacking Team ...

2015-07-15
Ars Technica 8 related

MS kills critical IE 11 bug after exploit was shopped to Hacking Team

Separate zero-day Windows bug actively used by Hacking Team also patched.  —  Microsoft has killed at least two security bugs linked to the compromised malware developer Hacking Team, including a crit...

2015-07-14
PCWorld 4 related

Hacking Team's malware uses UEFI rootkit to survive OS reinstalls

Surveillance software maker Hacking Team has provided its government customers with the ability to infect the low-level firmware found in laptops and other computers that they wanted to spy on.

2015-07-13
ZDNet 20 related

Exploits for two more Flash vulnerabilities found in Hacking Team leak; Adobe expected to patch the flaws this week

again— to new 0-day attacks Chris Williams / The Register : Flash HOLED AGAIN TWICE below waterline in fresh Hacking Team reveals Kafeine / Malware don't need Coffee : CVE-2015-5122 (HackingTeam 0d tw...

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TEXXR tracks 26 Techmeme articles mentioning Hacking Team, dating back to April 2015. The biggest stories include Hacking Team, which sells intrusion and surveillance tools to governments, breached;... and Exploits for two more Flash vulnerabilities found in Hacking Team leak; Adobe expected to.... Frequently covered alongside Phineas Fisher, Facebook, the Hacking Team, and Coinbase.

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