CEO of spyware maker Memento Labs confirms one of its government customers was caught using its malware | TechCrunch
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News Summary
- Kaspersky published a report identifying a new spyware called Dante that they say targeted Windows victims in Russia and neighboring Belarus.
- The researchers said the Dante spyware is made by Memento Labs, a Milan-based surveillance tech maker that was formed in 2019 after a new owner acquired and took over early spyware maker Hacking Team.Memento chief executive Paolo Lezzi confirmed to TechCrunch that the spyware caught by Kaspersky does indeed belong to Mementso.
- Lezzi blamed one of the company’s government customers for exposing Dante, saying the customer used an outdated version of the Windows spyware.
On Monday, researchers at cybersecurity giant Kaspersky published a report identifying a new spyware called Dante that they say targeted Windows victims in Russia and neighboring Belarus. The researc [+5890 chars]
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