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New Traces of Hacking Team in the Wild (welivesecurity.com)
Previously unreported samples of Hacking Team's infamous surveillance tool -- the Remote Control System (RCS) -- are in the wild, and have been detected by ESET systems in fourteen countries. From a report: Our analysis of the samples reveals evidence suggesting that Hacking Team's developers themselves are actively continuing the development of this spyware. Since being founded in 2003, the Italian spyware vendor Hacking Team gained notoriety for selling surveillance tools to governments and their agencies across the world. The capabilities of its flagship product, the Remote Control System (RCS), include extracting files from a targeted device, intercepting emails and instant messaging, as well as remotely activating a device's webcam and microphone. The company has been criticized for selling these capabilities to authoritarian governments -- an allegation it has consistently denied. When the tables turned in July 2015, with Hacking Team itself suffering a damaging hack, the reported use of RCS by oppressive regimes was confirmed. With 400GB of internal data -- including the once-secret list of customers, internal communications, and spyware source code -- leaked online, Hacking Team was forced to request its customers to suspend all use of RCS, and was left facing an uncertain future.
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Every Android app has network access, Google doesn't even list it as a permission (because Google thinks thats somehow ok as a default).
Every app can request access to the files, i.e. access my file is somehow the same as access every file for every app.
Every app can request camera and mic access.
So that "ear bunnies app", you downloaded that puts the comic ears on your videos, it probably includes advertising libraries, which gain the same permissions, who in turn grab your contacts, files, location, everything they can get permission for, and sell your data to everyone they can for pennies.
My point is this:
The biggest threat to Hacking Teams Business, is Google, because Google's interests in surveillance drive Android, and Android's bogus security leaves all your data available to every app. They even added 'instant apps' from the carrier, literally it checks for little apps which can contain spyware every time you turn the screen on, downloads it, runs it.
Google's self interests have resulted in this.
- I see the David Attenborough special.
therein lies the meat.
Can't the Mafia do something good for the community for a change? It's not like they have any qualms neutralizing threats to their business model, and, well, let's face it, this company is...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
KKK guy referring to nazis like they're a bad thing. The only difference between you and a nazi is - the nazis were fucking competent. You on the other hand, I wouldn't fancy your chances of getting your fucking shoes on the right way around.
Be patient asshole, we got to it, and you, Mr Pathetic coward.
I only mod down AC trolls, it a sacrifice im prepared to make to improve Slashdot.
Plus, I love it when you stamp your little feet in frustration. Sad.
Notes from the guy who hacked Hacking Team complete with many references. Shouldn't be at -1.