HACKING TEAM

It is an information technology company based Milan-ITALY  that sells Encryption Cracking Tools, offensive intrusion and surveillance capabilities to governments, law enforcement agencies and corporations as well as other customers to break encrypted communications. Founded 2003 by David Vincenzetti and Valeriano Bedeschi.

 The advertisement  came in an email sent to existing and potential new customers on October 19 when Hacking Team CEO David Vincenzetti confirmed that Hacking Team is now "latest brand new and totally unprecedented cyber investigation solutions."

The e-mail is not made public, but Motherboard has been able to obtain a copy of it that states:

"Most [government agencies] in the United States and abroad will become 'blind,' they will 'go dark,' they will simply be unable to fight vicious phenomena such as terrorism," wrote Vincenzetti. "Only the private companies can help here; we are one of them."
"It is crystal clear that the present American administration does not have the stomach to oppose the American IT conglomerates and to approve unpopularly, yet totally necessary, regulations," He added.

  

Game Changers

The brand new cyber investigation solutions here, of which Vincenzetti is talking about, will be "Game Changers."

The announcement came roughly 4 months after a mysterious hacker or group of hackers hacked into Hacking Team's servers, leaking more than 400 gigabytes of internal data, including:

• Internal emails
• Hacking tools
• Zero-day exploits
• Surveillance tools
• Source code for Spyware suite, called Remote Control System (RCS)
• A spreadsheet listing every government client with date of purchase and amount paid

Remote Control System Version 10 (RCS 10)

Since then, Hacking Team has reportedly been working on launching a new revamped 10th edition of its proprietary Remote Control System, RCS 10.

Hacking Team is known for its Remote Control System (RCS) spyware, also known as Galileo, which is loaded with a number of zero-day exploits that have the ability to monitor the computers of its targets remotely.

However, it's still unclear when the company will actually release RCS 10. Also, it is all set to be seen as to which law enforcement agencies will take the Hacking Team offer, given its recent security breach.