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The spy software Hacking Team could be finished in the hands of Saudi jihadis. It is one of shocking investigative hypotheses of Milan prosecutors, who are investigating the resounding hacking occurred in July against the Italian company that produces and sells security services to governments and intelligence agencies around the world. Spy software that have the ability to be activated by remote control and intercept the activities of computers and phones.
At the moment it is only a hypothesis being studied by investigators, who still needs investigation. Yesterday morning, however, the postal police in Milan and Turin have raided the headquarters of the company Mala Ltd., created by two former employees of Hacking Team, Moustapha Maanna and Guido Landi, suspects in the investigation came after the ‘hole “the company that produced the software spy Galileo (who produced the violation of 400 gigabytes of data stored in the server of highly confidential), on charges of” having illegally introduced into the computer system of Hacking Team, computer system public interest, in order to extract business data and confidential information in such a way as to cause damage or partial interruption of the operation. ” They must also respond to the revelation of trade secrets “for having revealed to a third party the software source code RCS Galileo, or parts of that code, as well as other confidential data pertaining to Hacking Team.”
The hypothesis being investigated by the prosecutor’s office is that, through the new company, the two former employees of Hacking Team would sell a clone of Galileo to a Saudi company, Saudi Technology Development, an investment fund controlled by the public in Saudi Arabia , and that takes care of technological development, which could have acted as an intermediary on behalf of other clients: for example, the military, government or Islamic fundamentalist groups. At the base of the track followed by the investigators, a bank by 300,000 euro arrived on behalf of Mala Ltd. by the Saudi company as payment for a service of vocational training, however, would never have happened. “All buffaloes – replicates the lawyer Sandro Clementi, lawyer Guido Landi and Mostapha Maanna – We are calm and confident that the investigation will show that the allegations that are being moved are lies spread by Hacking Team ‘. He adds: “In the search warrant there is no reference to the fact that the company may have sold computer services to the Arabs, then ended up in the hands of terrorists. That terrorism can be a hypothesis investigation but was not put pen to paper. Interrogation of July, asked from us, we explained the commercial relations of the company Mala justified contracts. We have nothing to hide, we are pleased that the investigation go forward. Will be demonstrated our strangeness. “
Concerns about the consequences of the resounding hacking were also expressed by the company that, immediately after the events, in a statement he admitted: “We have lost the ability to control who uses our technology. Terrorists, extortionists and others can implement it at will. We believe it is an extremely dangerous situation, it is now evident that there is a serious threat. ” And in a lawsuit filed last May at the Milan prosecutor’s office, the CEO of Hacking Team David Vincenzetti called “dangerous” the “design” of Mostapha Maanna and Guido Landi, with particular reference to the “possible establishment of an antidote to the RCS software and the possible sale of the same by Mala Ltd. in hostile countries and non-governmental entities “, being able to get hold, according Vincenzetti, source code necessary to clone the programs developed by Hacking Team. Meanwhile, in Madrid, police arrested three people suspected of planning attacks in the country in the style of what happened in France at the headquarters of the weekly Charlie Hebdo satiricolo. The three men, Moroccans living in Spain, are accused of being part of a group linked to the ISIS. According to reports from the Spanish Ministry of the Interior the three were ready to launch “at any time” terrorist attacks “as those that occurred recently in other countries.”
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