Hacking Team lost its license to sell surveillance malware outside Europe
It’s not even been a year since the Hacking Team became the Hacked Team, but after being pwned the company apparently didn’t crawl off and die. The Hacking Team’s newest woes, which were first reported by the Italian newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano, means the company can’t easily conduct business as usual by selling its Remote Control Software to just anyone who wants it.
The Italian newspaper reported that the Hacking Team can’t sell outside the EU without jumping legal hoops for the following 46 countries: Australia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bahrain, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Switzerland, Chile, Colombia, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Etiopia, Guatemala, Honduras, Indonesia, Israel, India, Iraqi Kurdistan, Jordan, Japan, South Korea, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Morocco, Mongolia, Mexico, Malaysia, Nigeria, Oman, Peru, the Philippines, Paraguay, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, the United States of America, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam.
