Hacking Team Offering Encryption Cracking Tools to Law Enforcement Agencies

[JerkyMcDilerino]

Source: http://thehackernews.com/2015/10/hacking-team-tools.html

 

Hacking Team, the infamous Italy-based spyware company that had more than 400 GB of its confidential information stolen earlier this year, has resumed its operations and started pitching new hacking tools to help US law enforcement gets around their encryption issues.

 

Yes, Hacking Team is back with a new set of Encryption Cracking Tools for government agencies as well as other customers to break encrypted communications.

 

The announcement came in an email pitch sent to existing and potential new customers on October 19 when Hacking Team CEO David Vincenzetti confirmed that Hacking Team is now"finalizing [its] brand new and totally unprecedented cyber investigation solutions."

 

The e-mail is not made public, but Motherboard has been able to obtain a copy of it that states:

"Most [government agencies] in the United States and abroad will become 'blind,' they will 'go dark,' they will simply be unable to fight vicious phenomena such as terrorism," wrote Vincenzetti. "Only the private companies can help here; we are one of them."
"It is crystal clear that the present American administration does not have the stomach to oppose the American IT conglomerates and to approve unpopularly, yet totally necessary, regulations," He added.

Game Changers

 

The brand new cyber investigation solutions here, of which Vincenzetti is talking about, will be "Game Changers."

 

The announcement came roughly 4 months after a mysterious hacker or group of hackers hacked into Hacking Team's servers, leaking more than 400 gigabytes of internal data, including:

 

• Internal emails
• Hacking tools
• Zero-day exploits
• Surveillance tools
• Source code for Spyware suite, called Remote Control System (RCS)
• A spreadsheet listing every government client with date of purchase and amount paid

 

Remote Control System Version 10 (RCS 10)

 

Since then, Hacking Team has reportedly been working on launching a new revamped 10th edition of its proprietary Remote Control System, RCS 10.

 

Hacking Team is known for its Remote Control System (RCS) spyware, also known as Galileo, which is loaded with a number of zero-day exploits that have the ability to monitor the computers of its targets remotely.

 

However, it's still unclear when the company will actually release RCS 10. Also, it is all set to be seen as to which law enforcement agencies will take the Hacking Team offer, given its recent security breach.

 

So now hackers and Law Enforcement Agencies collaborate? I never expect this to happen! Law Enforcement must arrest these guys. Because these guys probably will install backdoor trojan try to gain Law Enforcement data.

[Zefues]

It's really funny how people imagine how hackers look like. 

[JerkyMcDilerino]

It's really funny how people imagine how hackers look like. 

Oh dang boy, he got that old 98s laptop. 

[UltraNeonGaming]

It's really funny how people imagine how hackers look like.

You mean hacking doesn't look like this?

[Dabombinable]

Well, to put it this way, people who do shit like this have to be on the payroll of some one in the Government(s).

[QueenDemetria]

It's really funny how people imagine how hackers look like. 

[Guest]

How's the encryption cracking supposed to work?

The jackasses who couldn't be bothered to monitor their internal network have figured out how to prove that P=NP?

[JAKEBAB]

Cool so giving up peoples privacy for money? fucking assholes .

[GooDBoY920]

plz change the font color, its difficult to read in night theme.

[lubblig]

So now hackers and Law Enforcement Agencies collaborate? I never expect this to happen! Law Enforcement must arrest these guys. Because these guys probably will install backdoor trojan try to gain Law Enforcement data.

That's pretty much all Hacking Team does. They make hacking tools and sell it to governments and like CIA/FBI etc. That's is what the big 500GB hacked data was all about a few months ago. The dump showing all the tools and exploits they had and what governments had purchased their tools. So this is sadly nothing new that they've just started doing. This is their entire business.

[as96]

It's really funny how people imagine how hackers look like. 

If you wear these:

you are an hacker.

[FakezZ]

How's the encryption cracking supposed to work?

The jackasses who couldn't be bothered to monitor their internal network have figured out how to prove that P=NP?

Yeah I am very skeptical about this as well. Probably a bunch of bs to gain popularity...

[zacRupnow]

I hate Hacking Team.

[Trik'Stari]

Buncha assholes right here.

[Doobeedoo]

Wow, insane.

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

If their tools are as good as their security we shouldn't have anything to worry about.