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How Italy became an unexpected spyware hub
Italy is home to six major spyware vendors and one supplier, with many smaller and harder-to-track enterprises emerging all the time, experts say.
Documents published by Wikileaks in 2015 show that RCS had engaged with military and intelligence agencies in Pakistan, Chile, Mongolia, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Vietnam and Turkmenistan, according to a blog post from Lookout, the cloud security company which discovered Hermit. In addition to being a former member of Parliament, Quintarelli spent eight years as the president of the Italian government’s lead digital agency and also served as chairman of a United Nations advanced technologies advisory group. Major scandals involving infections of civil society leaders, journalists and opposition politicians have rocked Europe as Greece, Spain, Hungary and Poland all have been caught using the surveillance tool against citizens uninvolved in terrorism or crime in recent years.
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