Hacking Team, Chinese hackers would use the software violated … – Tech Fanpage

A few days of heavy violation suffered by Hacking Team, the Italian company world leader in the production of anti spy software, include groups of hackers who have used the software stolen during the heavy attack on 6 July. The warning comes from the website of China’s South China Morning Post reports that the use of the software by Chinese hackers that they would use the tools in the network during the violation of the Milan Twitter account. And yesterday the prosecutor of Milan, owner of the two investigations launched on the case Hacking Team, has heard for 5 hours, the company’s CEO, David Vincenzetti.

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According to reports from the site of China, South China Morning Post , hackers have exploited loopholes in the program Adobe Flash, a program that, according to the head of security of the company Adobe should Facebook soon close.

The company FireEye told the South China Morning Post that the two groups of Chinese hackers , has long monitored, would exploit its vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player, the most sometimes highlighted these days. The same hackers have also used some of the tools software Hacking Team spread light on the web after the theft of the file of 400 GB of documents and confidential information stolen to the Italian company.

The Chinese hackers have targeted sectors such as aerospace, defense , companies in the telecommunications sector and the energy sector.

The flaws in Flash Player, Web giants demand the closing

And after the many flaws highlighted in Flash, Acrobat Reader from Adobe installed on millions of computers to view multimedia content, sprouting in many network tips for uninstalling software.

were some giants like Facebook and Firefox have declared their intention to block Adobe Flash Player. Alex Stamos, responsible for the safety of Facebook asked Adobe to start planning a year-end software. While Mozilla has made it known to block all versions of Flash Player in the browser.

Hacking Team, investigations

In relation to investigations launched on the case Hacking Team pm titoralre, Alessandro Gobbis , has heard the Attorney founder and CEO of the Milan, David Vincenzetti. During the long interrogation, which lasted five hours, Vincenzetti said that parts of the software stolen in heavy hacker attack are “already obsolete.” “Our software is a virus on the contrary” – continues Vincenzetti – “and if you do not update it for a week, it is efficient and can be identified by the safety systems. That will create a weapon in the service of the terrorists is extremely unlikely.” Vincenzetti also claims that “the innovative” source of Galileo, used today by about forty governments worldwide to protect itself from terrorism, not ‘was stolen.

With regard to the provision software to governments such as Sudan, Ethiopia and others, Vincenzetti declares that the same “supply to these governments has been closed.”