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Subject: [ISN] DEA, US Army bought $1.2M worth of hacking tools in recent years
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2015-04-17 11:11:21
Message-ID: alpine.DEB.2.02.1504171111090.30600 () infosecnews ! org
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/04/dea-us-army-bought-1-2m-worth-of-hacking-tools-in-recent-years/
By Cyrus Farivar
Ars Technica
April 16, 2015
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the United States Army have
almost certainly been buying questionable remote access hacking tools for
years from an Italian company called Hacking Team, via an obscure American
reseller called Cicom USA.
Hacking Team openly advertises what it calls its "Remote Control System,"
(RCS) a piece of malware remotely installed on a target's computer or
smartphone. As the company touts: "Evidence collection on monitored
devices is stealth and transmission of collected data from the device to
the RCS server is encrypted and untraceable."
The security research group, Citizen Lab, has shown that Hacking Team's
smartphone malware has been spotted in the wild in many countries around
the world, including Mexico, Morocco, Malaysia, Hungary, and more.
The new revelation comes from two independent investigations released
Wednesday by Privacy International and Vice Motherboard. The London-based
nonprofit also published documents from Hacking Team that claim it can
monitor "hundreds of thousands of targets" per installation.
[...]
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