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Spanish spyware startup Mollitiam Industries shuts down
The little-known surveillance vendor filed for bankruptcy in January, after years of peddling spyware to countries like Colombia.
)]The same year as the Colombia scandal, Mollitiam Industries gave an online talk through ISS World, a series of conferences for companies that want to sell products to law enforcement and intelligence agencies. The company wrote in the talk’s description that end-to-end encryption was making it more difficult to eavesdrop on intended individuals, and referred to the need to use malware to compromise the target’s device in order to access their communications. Jurre van Bergen, a technologist at Amnesty International’s Security Lab, told TechCrunch that he and his colleagues found Mollitiam Industries’ Windows samples and identified a command and control server that was indexed on Censys, an online search engine for internet-connected devices, as “Invisible Man Login,” a clear reference to one of the companies’ products.
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