A company that sold spyware to Italian cops has declared bankruptcy.
In 2019, Motherboard reported that a company named eSurv was distributing malware on the Google Play Store. At the time, our investigation found that eSurv had infected around 1,000 targets, several of them just innocent citizens that did not commit any crime. A few months prior, prosecutors opened an investigation accusing eSurv employees of spying on innocent Italians.
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On March 4, a court in Catanzaro, the southern Italian city where eSurv was based, declared the company bankrupt.
The story of eSurv is a textbook example of government spyware gone awfully wrong. The company started selling video surveillance software for homes and offices. Then, afte…
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