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We learned yesterday that the Hacking Team—an Italian security company with ties to oppressive governments and a reputation for selling intrusive spy tools—got hacked. Today, we’re learning some scary things about what this all means for you and me. In a word: malware.
Thanks to documents leaked after the hack, we now know Hacking Team sold exploits and digital weapons to human rights offenders in Sudan, but also to the FBI, DEA, and U.S. Army. But there’s more. Thanks to people leaking information from the evil Hacking Team, there are now an unknown number of weaponized exploits out in the wild.
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Thanks to documents leaked after the hack, we now know Hacking Team sold exploits and digital weapons to human rights offenders in Sudan, but also to the FBI, DEA, and U.S. Army. But there’s more. Thanks to people leaking information from the evil Hacking Team, there are now an unknown number of weaponized exploits out in the wild.
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