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India sought spyware from Italian firm: WikiLeaks
LONDON - Top Indian security agencies were secretly negotiating with Italian cyber-surveillance firm, Hacking Team, to procure software for intercepting communications through remote bugging of devices, reveals the purported internal Hacking Team e-mail exchanges released by WikiLeaks.
The emails are part of the 440-gigabyte (GB) internal data stolen this week through a major cyber attack on the firm, a major portion of which has been made public.
Of the one million e-mails, 3,000 pertain to the firm’s Indian-centric activities beginning August 2011. The communication chain revealed details of the company’s dealings with the Research & Analysis Wing (RAW), Intelligence Bureau and various state intelligence units.
E-mails reveal that the Hacking Team reached out to the government allegedly via third party vendors that suggest requirement-based solution. The two prominent vendors in India - as per the email archives - are Israel-based NICE Systems and SEMCO, an industrial house in India.
Customers being addressed by SEMCO India in the e-mails include the Cabinet Secretariat and intelligence units in Delhi, Mumbai, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Gujarat.
In the past, Hacking Team representatives had been in touch with the police in Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata. The Hacking Team was mostly interested in pushing its flagship product Galileo, a platform-independent undetectable remote control system, which takes control of targeted devices and monitor them regardless of encryption and mobility.
The subsequent emails indicate that the Cabinet Secretariat and the Intelligence Bureau have been in regular touch with the Hacking Team representatives.
India sought spyware from Italian firm: WikiLeaks
- INP
- July 11, 2015, 1:16 pm
LONDON - Top Indian security agencies were secretly negotiating with Italian cyber-surveillance firm, Hacking Team, to procure software for intercepting communications through remote bugging of devices, reveals the purported internal Hacking Team e-mail exchanges released by WikiLeaks.
The emails are part of the 440-gigabyte (GB) internal data stolen this week through a major cyber attack on the firm, a major portion of which has been made public.
Of the one million e-mails, 3,000 pertain to the firm’s Indian-centric activities beginning August 2011. The communication chain revealed details of the company’s dealings with the Research & Analysis Wing (RAW), Intelligence Bureau and various state intelligence units.
E-mails reveal that the Hacking Team reached out to the government allegedly via third party vendors that suggest requirement-based solution. The two prominent vendors in India - as per the email archives - are Israel-based NICE Systems and SEMCO, an industrial house in India.
Customers being addressed by SEMCO India in the e-mails include the Cabinet Secretariat and intelligence units in Delhi, Mumbai, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Gujarat.
In the past, Hacking Team representatives had been in touch with the police in Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata. The Hacking Team was mostly interested in pushing its flagship product Galileo, a platform-independent undetectable remote control system, which takes control of targeted devices and monitor them regardless of encryption and mobility.
The subsequent emails indicate that the Cabinet Secretariat and the Intelligence Bureau have been in regular touch with the Hacking Team representatives.
India sought spyware from Italian firm: WikiLeaks
