Their hacks might place most Tor users in danger, but there's currently not so much of a furore surrounding their business practices, even if concerns have been raised in the past.Ĭhaouki Bekrar, the founder of exploit sales firms VUPEN and Zerodium, says attacks targeting Tor nodes and de-anonymizing dark web users "are the holy grail of exploits for government agencies in charge of criminal investigations". A few times a year they share their exploits in private forums and exhibitions. There are, though, a vast number of those private exploit salesmen and women now focusing on Tor. Given it was selling its malware for millions of dollars, one would expect its anti-Tor tools to be worth a fair sum too, such is the obsession amongst mandarins and snoops with the so-called "dark web".
Rabe wouldn't say much more on how it might do that, but just a matter of weeks later, the leaks from the attack revealed their Tor exploits - a service that would see Hacking Team hardware placed on a target's ISP to intercept their previously-hidden traffic.
That included targeting the anonymizing Tor network, where civil rights activists, researchers, paedophiles and drug dealers alike try to hide from the global surveillance complex. The Italian organisation, which even its CEO called a "notorious" provider of government spyware, was looking to expand its line of products, Rabe said. Earlier this year, before his company was torn apart by a security breach, I was having coffee with Eric Rabe, the mouthpiece for Hacking Team.
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