Hacking Team, famous for supplying malware to spy on journalists, according to Motherboard, is back in business.

Hacking Team is the spyware vendor that came to light with the release of information that rose to fame when a 40GB Wikileaks leak brought to light it was selling covert surveillance technology to governments with questionable human rights records.

The company's CEO David Vincenzetti has been offering encryption-cracking tools to US law enforcement agencies, government agencies and local police departments.

A leak brought about by an individual identifying as PhineasFisher revealed various things about the company, including but not limited to questionable customers, and that the FBI and DEA had bought from the company in the past.

Reporters Without Borders named the Hacking Team “Enemies of the Internet” for selling tools to repressive regimes. A year later in Feb of 2014, Citizen Lab exposed that the Ethiopian government had used Hacking Team's spyware to hack into the computers of several journalists in the diaspora, calling this a clear attack on freedom of speech.

Source: SCMagazine