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title: "Hacking Team government users"
date: 2017-07-09T08:26:00+06:00
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![21 Suspected Government Users of RCS by Hacking Team](/images/hacking-team-government-users-2014.jpg)
*The 21 suspected government users of RCS by Hacking Team*

> Hacking Team, also known as HT S.r.l., is a Milan-based company that describes itself as the “first to propose an offensive solution for cyber investigations". 
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> Their flagship Remote Control System (RCS)[^1] product, billed “the hacking suite for governmental interception,” is a suite of remote monitoring implants (i.e., spyware) sold exclusively to government agencies worldwide.
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> We suspect that twenty-one governments are using Hacking Team’s RCS spyware. Except as otherwise noted, we identified these countries based on tracing endpoints of Hacking Team proxy chains: Azerbaijan, Colombia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Oman, Panama, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Uzbekistan.

Full report: [Mapping Hacking Team’s “Untraceable” Spyware](https://citizenlab.ca/2014/02/mapping-hacking-teams-untraceable-spyware/) by Bill Marczak, Claudio Guarnieri, Morgan Marquis-Boire, and John Scott-Railton, February 17, 2014

[^1]: Remote Control System (RCS) is sophisticated computer spyware marketed and sold exclusively to governments by Milan-based Hacking Team