The Vigilante Who Hacked Hacking Team Explains How He Did It https://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-vigilante-who-hacked-hacking-team-explains-how-he-did-it
How do they infect a person's phone or computer with this? Do they send them a link? If so, what if they don't click on it?
Re - Florida Cops et al It doesn't matter what/who sends etc you malware etc. If you have methods/apps etc in place to prevent stuff running without your permission, you're safe I got hold of Finfisher .Gov spyware a while ago & tried to run it with Admin on my comp. But the measures i have in place stopped it DEAD
I wouldn't be too complacent just on the basis of stopping Gamma or Hacking Team. This is not an area where there any guarantees of safety, only relative degrees of protection against the amount of money and time your adversary has. And they only need one weakness in your defences (or in those around you).
@ caspian Re - NOT getting infected Yes i'm on XP/SP2 with NO MS updates, & very happily been infection free since installing, & reinstalling on newer PC's, for over 10 years ! Well first off you're using SD, so that's a Big plus. But who wants to be infected anyway whilst in SD or VM mode ? Because even though we can reboot etc & start afresh, we could have lost valuable work etc we were doing in the interim. Also however much time was involved in doing that work. So, you need a good Anti/EXE/SYS installed which prevents any of those running, unless you allow it/them. You can also set it to prompt/block things such as, CMD.exe/regedit.exe/regedt32.exe etc etc, & ONLY allow them to run on a case by case basis, for eg if you were installing something. And a good AntiKeylogger with Key/Password scrambler. This could be included in a HIPS, or vice versa, or a seperate HIPS. A decent bidirectional FW, even if you have a router. Get a Windows Script etc etc prompter/blocker, & i Don't mean a browser Script blocker, but one of those is advisable too. WSB = sdefend.exe - Add in as many extra ,extentions as you like. Look up these & see if they will work on your PC. BugOff.exe - DCOMbob.exe - UnPnP.exe - wwdc.exe - dsostop2.exe - htastop.exe - Plus get Autoruns.exe & see what's running & disable or delete what you don't need. There any numerous other things i've disabled in Windows, but i can't remember everything i did ! I'm Fully aware that nothings perfect, & other people do things differently, but i ain't complaining after All these years Let me know how you get on
Thanks for all of the tips. That's a lot. I am using SD and sandboxie. I have recently added EXERadar Pro. I guess that's an antiexecutable. I have Malwarebytes Pro. I am going to add a firewall. I'll have to look into some of the other things you mentioned. Thanks.
I'm glad you got back to me, as i thought you had forgotten etc ! You're well covered already, but adding a good FW won't hurt. Plus if you find & use any of the things i mentioned, it's a bonus. All the best
I apologize. I am not on here like I use to be. I've had a lot of family issues and all sorts of things going on. But I value your input very highly and I appreciate all that you have shared here over the years. Thanks so much!
Hacking Team is back … probably it never stopped its activity. Watch Out! http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/70094/hacking/hacking-team-post-hack-samples.html
New Backdoor Based on HackingTeam’s Surveillance Tool A recently discovered backdoor built by the Iron cybercrime group is based on the leaked source code of Remote Control System (RCS), HackingTeam’s infamous surveillance tool, security firm Intezer reports. June 4, 2018 https://www.securityweek.com/new-backdoor-based-hackingteam’s-surveillance-tool
Hacking Team’s New Owner: ‘We’re Starting From Scratch’ April 18, 2019 https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/neavnm/hacking-team-new-owner-starting-from-scratch
Vigilante Hacker ‘Phineas Fisher’ Denies Working for the Russian Government July 23, 2019 https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/...her-denies-working-for-the-russian-government
Also possible: "If true, this wouldn’t be the first time a hacker created a Russian-intelligence persona to throw investigators off their trail."
Hacking Team Founder: ‘Hacking Team is Dead’ May 26, 2020 https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7wbnd/hacking-team-is-dead
