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Hacking Team will be back to business soon

The Hacking Team CEO David Vincenzetti announced that the popular surveillance company will be back to business vert soon, but experts have many doubts.

After the embarrassing data breach suffered by the Hacking Team, the surveillance company plans to rebuild the “empire”. The hackers likely haven’t stolen the entire intellectual property of the firm, which still has some “gems” in its arsenal ready to be used.

“What happened earlier this summer in the attack on our company was a reckless and vicious crime,” “We have reported it to Italian authorities who are investigating it and we expect the authorities of other nations to be involved as well. While it is true that criminals exposed some of our source code to internet users, it is also true that by now the exposed system elements because of universal ability to detect these system elements.” Said David Vincenzetti, CEO of Hacking Team.

Vincenzetti also claims that the hackers hasn’t exposed important elements of their source code, and that the company experts are now focused on rebuilding the internal infrastructure, before thinking on open for business.

The principal issue of a hypothetical return in the business is the company reputation. Security industry now has the proof that the company works also for rogue nations.

Other side effects of the Hacking Team hack is the resignation of Andreas Pentaras. the head of the Cyprus Intelligence Service, since was discovered that his department was using Hacking Team’s products, and the detached with Netragard company that issued a public apology where it said “It was our mutual understanding that this buyer maintained the same code of ethics as our own. Unfortunately we were very, very wrong.”

The story of the Hacking Team hack is embarrassing as scandalous, yesterday media revealed that the Hacking Team supported the Italian National Military police to hijack internet’s BGP routing system to take over the IP addresses of a foreign ISP.

Time is passing and the scandals multiply, experts speculate that new material will appear, despite I’m sure that hacking Team will can come back soon, I don’t believe it can quick recovery the situation.

This is the tip of the iceberg, Hacking Team for sure is just one of the company that makes dirty business with rogue nations and bloody regimes.

About the Author Elsio Pinto

Elsio Pinto (@high54security) is at the moment the Lead McAfee Security Engineer at Swiss Re, but he also as knowledge in the areas of malware research, forensics, ethical hacking. He had previous experiences in major institutions being the European Parliament one of them. He is a security enthusiast and tries his best to pass his knowledge. He also owns his own blog McAfee Security Engineer at Swiss Re, but he also as knowledge in the areas of malware research, forensics, ethical hacking. He had previous experiences in major institutions being the European Parliament one of them. He is a security enthusiast and tries his best to pass his knowledge. He also owns his own blog McAfee Security Engineer at Swiss Re, but he also as knowledge in the areas of malware research, forensics, ethical hacking. He had previous experiences in major institutions being the European Parliament one of them. He is a security enthusiast and tries his best to pass his knowledge. He also owns his own blog http://high54security.blogspot.com/

Edited by Pierluigi Paganini

(Security Affairs – surveillence, Hacking Team)

Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.