Molitiam Industries starts up to Spanish spyware

Molitiam Industries, a small, unknown Spanish spyware manufacturer, closes.

Starting startup It was reported for the first time Through the field of intelligence and monitoring new Intello Online, which blamed the company’s fall on financial issues. Public business records Ensure that the company applied for bankruptcy on January 23.

Unlike Piracyand NSO collectionAnd now Paraguce solutionsMolitiam Industries, which is based in Tolido, a city outside Madrid, Spain, is mostly working in public opinion. In part of it, secrecy is just a result of the nature of the spyware industry: there are many sellers around the world, and there is no great advertisement of them.

Another reason that makes the Molitiam Industries avoid advertising may have a less relationship to the industry of spyware itself, and more than the fact that the start of the startup of spyware was based in Spain, which does not receive a lot of attention from the media in the international English and also because the Molitiam Industries was only known Absolutely in one scandal in Colombia, another place that can be reported in a world English -speaking.

At the time of writing this report, Molitiam Industries’ Official website It is still online. The company did not respond to the suspension request sent to an email address on the site. When Techcrunch called a phone number listed in the company’s Google Maps list, the line was busy. according to Official LinkedIn accountMOLITIAM Industries had between 11 and 50 employees.

In 2021, Molitiam Industries drew the attention of the English -language media. The wired was reported at that time An unintentionally leaving a third -party book , Activating device cameras and microphone, stealing passwords, and recording Keys.

Previous year, in 2020, The Colombian news magazine Simana mentioned The journalists and their offices were under physical and digital monitoring by the country’s military intelligence agency, and whose agents are reported to be journalists with the threats that included sending them to the utmost graves. The monitoring and intimidation campaign came after the magazine published investigations into alleged violations by the army officers in 2019.

A source for the magazine said: “A colonel of an electronic fly provided me with 50 million peso (about 15,000 dollars at that time) to provide harmful programs (virus) in the SMana press computers, and thus I am able to access information.”

It seems that harmful programs have been developed by Molitiam Industries, According to a contract image Between the National Army of Colombia (Ejército Nacional de Colombia) and Molitiam Industries.

The document showed that the military agency made an offer of about 3 billion peso (about 900,000 dollars at the time) to gain a system called “Hombre Invisible” (or an invisible man). It is claimed that the program was able to infect MacOS and Windows devices, by hiding inside Office documents, and through the USB engine. Harmful programs can also exceed anti -virus programs, and allow military officers to injure an “unlimited” number of active targets.

“This tool allows us to do everything: enter any computer, access WhatsApp and Telegram Web and Telgram calls, and download deleted or deleted chat conversations, and in general, everything is stored in the anniversary of the affected device,” Semana.

In the same year with the Colombia scandal, Maliamam industries Driving online Through ISS World, a series of conferences for companies that want to sell products for law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

The company wrote in a discussion description that the encryption from one side to the party makes it difficult to eavesdrop on the intended individuals, and pointed to the need to use the harmful programs for the settlement device in order to reach their connections. According to the description“MOLITIAM will explain the roots of this approach through software demonstrations, and will share innovative features such as WhatsApp voip.”

Molitiam Industries was at least active until the end of 2023, according to Meta. In early 2024, dead He said in a report He has removed a network of fake accounts on Facebook and Instagram, which has been linked to Molitiam Industries.

“Molitiam Industries and its customers managed fake accounts they used to test harmful capabilities between their own accounts and ignore public information. Like other monitoring companies against rental, they used IP blogging links that aim to track IP addresses for their goals,” read the report. “They have also participated in hunting and social engineering primarily targeting people in Spain, Colombia and Peru, including political opposition, journalists, anti -corruption activists and activists against the abuse of the police.”

Spain, especially Barcelona, It has recently become a miracle for startups on spywareSome of them were established by foreigners who recruit security researchers from other countries, including Italy and Israel.

While the company got a little attention, its activities were tracked by Amnesty International. Gori van Bergen, a technician in the security laboratory of Amnesty International, told Techcrunch that he and his colleagues found Windows samples for Molitiam Industries and identified a server and monitoring of Censys, an online search engine for Internet connected devices, as well. “A clear indication of a company’s product.

“A very dirty work for the spyware manufacturer not putting this behind the protection wall,” Van Bergen told Techcrunch. “I think I am not amazed due to their dirty action, I have succeeded.”