Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
Months after being hacked and getting all its secrets leaked online, the spyware vendor Hacking Team is still in business—but struggling to survive. Now, the Italian government has dealt the embattled company another blow. The government authority who oversees the export of “dual use” technologies, which can be used both for civilian as well as military purposes, revoked Hacking Team’s “global authorization” to export its spyware at the end of March. The Italian Ministry of Economic Development (also known as MISE) said in a press release that the company would now have to get an ”individual” license. Eric Rabe, Hacking Team’s spokesperson, confirmed the news on Tuesday, after the Italian newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano first reported of the revocation. “Yes, the global license has been suspended by MISE but Hacking Team still has approvals for all countries within the EU, and the company also expects to be given approvals for sales to countries outside the EU,” Rabe said in an email to Motherboard. “We can sell everywhere in Europe without a license. We can sell everywhere in the world but we have to ask for a license every time we sell.” Years before the hack, researchers were able to reveal […]
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