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This article was published on November 3, 2015 at 12:52.
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You may be ended in the hands of Saudi terrorists or foreign governments or foreign military technology Hacking Team, the company selling the now famous software spy Galileo to governments around the world and that has been the victim of a massive cyber attack on July 5.
This is the underlying assumptions of the search warrant with which the postal police in Milan and and one in Turin occurred in the company’s headquarters Mala Ltd., created by two employees escaped from Hacking Team Moustapha Maanna and Guido Landi and based in Turin in Via Guglielmo Marconi. The two are being investigated by Milan prosecutors for unauthorized computer access and revelations of the industrial system.
300 thousand euro from a Saudi company
The searches were ordered by prosecutors in Milan Alessandro Gobbis. Investigators and prosecutors have discovered a deposit of about 300,000 Euros on behalf of the company by a company based in Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Technology Development, which deals with “the promotion of technology and knowledge transfer to Saudi Arabia.” The causal official would have been to a professional training service which, however, according to the findings of the investigators would never have been made. “It is plausible – writes the prosecutor Alessandro Gobbis – that the sum paid to Mala has been paid to vocational training, appearing more probable for the provision of IT services.” Among the potential users of the ‘purchase there could be not only jihadists but also foreign military or foreign governments. The data to create the software may have been purchased, then, or for espionage or for reasons of commercial competition.
Hypothesis: sold the source code of Galileo
The suspect behind the new searches is that the two former employees of HT have sold at that price the so-called “code source “spyware Galileo Saudi society, probably mediating on behalf of another client to spot: the two have” betrayed “by selling secrets then Hacking Team, a hypothesis also supported by CEO of the company, David Vincenzetti. The source code would be helpful, according to investigators, to “neutralize” or “play” the spying software that is the hypothesis of the investigators, could also be finished in the hands of terrorists. Besides Maanna and Landi, they have investigated three other people deemed unrelated to the “chapter” Saudi. Mostapha Maanna and Guido Landi had been questioned this summer, at their request, from Gobbis pm, after that, in July last year, Hacking Team had suffered hacking action which leads to violations of 400 gigabytes of confidential data stored in enterprise server .
The defense: “We are calm,” hoaxes “spread by Hacking Team”
“We are calm and confident that the investigation will show that the allegations that there are moves are “hoaxes” spread by Hacking Team. ” So says the lawyer Sandro Clementi, lawyer Moustapha Maanna and Guido Landi. In the search warrant, the lawyer explains, “there is no reference to the fact that the company Mala Ltd.”, founded by the two suspects, “it may have sold computer services to the Arabs, then ended up in the hands of terrorists.” That of terrorism, according to the lawyer, “can be a hypothesis investigation, but was not put pen to paper. Interrogation of July, we wondered – adds the defender – we explained the commercial relations of the company Mala justified on contracts. We have nothing to hide, we are pleased that the investigation go forward. Will be demonstrated our strangeness. “
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