Hacking Team Hacked, What Infosec Community has to say

Hacking Team Hacked, What Infosec Community has to say

by Malik korrich ~ lundi 6 juillet 2015

You might have got the news that the world's most notorious IT security firm, Hacking team; got hacked. The attacker has uploaded 400 GB files on torrent, there are many things to analyze but what infosec community has to say about it? You might be surprised to see the leaked information, here are the some comments of the community:

o0o0pss Porno

WTF? Why does the Hackingteam have this reference to child porn in their code? https://t.co/b32K3liM5y

— Kevin Mitnick (@kevinmitnick) July 6, 2015

 

Naughty boys 

Wow. #HackingTeam "backdoored" their own product to let them do arbitrary SQL, itself vulnerable to #SQLinjection pic.twitter.com/qyPKANMbLH

— Pwn All The Things (@pwnallthethings) July 6, 2015

Please Don't say this

The irony, Hacking Team forked my open source software, @cuckoosandbox, to do their AV testing https://t.co/O0Ve4jKKum

— Claudio (@botherder) July 6, 2015

 

Are you Kidding me?

Looks like London police & @NCA_UK are possible @HackingTeam customers - looking forward to seeing these emails... pic.twitter.com/8gBMUCbcbk

— Ryan Gallagher (@rj_gallagher) July 6, 2015

 

Yet They Failed to secure their server

So #HackingTeam follows @owasp guides ... :D http://t.co/Akqx8tuOsz pic.twitter.com/1L15Mn7q34

— Ashar Javed (@soaj1664ashar) July 6, 2015

 

Chile! Are you serious?

Congrats to the government of Chile, which in 2014 signed the largest @hackingteam contract to date: 2.85 mil USD. pic.twitter.com/MuRc6DVecl

— Christopher Soghoian (@csoghoian) July 6, 2015

Well, there are many things that the community has to say. But, the real question is; who is behind the attack? Who wants to reveal the hackingteam business? Actually, why they want to do this?

You might have the answer, if not then, you have your opinion which we and everyone would to read, do share it below is the comment box :)