Mollitiam Industries is the Newest Cyberweapons Arms Manufacturer
Wired is reporting on a company called Mollitiam Industries:
Marketing materials left exposed online by a third-party claim Mollitiam’s interception products, dubbed “Invisible Man” and “Night Crawler,” are capable of remotely accessing a target’s files, location, and covertly turning on a device’s camera and microphone. Its spyware is also said to be equipped with a keylogger, which means every keystroke made on an infected device—including passwords, search queries and messages sent via encrypted messaging apps—can be tracked and monitored.
To evade detection, the malware makes use of the company’s so-called “invisible low stealth technology” and its Android product is advertised as having “low data and battery consumption” to prevent people from suspecting their phone or tablet has been infected. Mollitiam is also currently marketing a tool that it claims enables “mass surveillance of digital profiles and identities” across social media and the dark web.
Clive Robinson • June 23, 2021 7:26 AM
@ Bruce,
Perhaps it’s time to start collecting a list of them.
And perhaps as importantly “the names” behind them.
Obviously they assume they can do what they want, so why not return the favour?
So a very fast bit of OSInt via the first page of a search gives,
Dunn&Bradstreet indicate they are in “TOLEDO”. But…
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mollitiam-industries
Says Madrid, and Venture Capital funded. This site agrees and adds a couple of names as the funders,
https://www.alleywatch.com/profile/mollitiam-industries/
And this one gives an address abd partial phone number,
https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/462012-40
So it is Toledo in Madrid Spain, but it’s not just “Venture Funding”, RT[1] have an article saying they are in part funded by EU Regional Development funding,
https://www.rt.com/news/526616-eu-funded-mollitiam-surveillance-tools/
So in all probability they are being “boosted on the public dime” to make a couple of VC sharks more cash. Thus their products could be more “air-ware” than anything else.
But you will find this,
And,
And this fun titbit,
So they are not exactly picky when it comes to who they talk to, thus probably not who they sell to either.
And linked in is “ever helpfull” even ib just search engines,
The “Universidad Politécnica de Madrid” has a telecommunications engineering department it’s quite proud of “Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación”(ETSIT). If you know where to look you can find the names of Faculty staff and student Members and what their research / thesis / studies are or were. So this might well give you one of the lead technical staff as they have been at the company since it started up…
Not so helpfull but usefull for “social engineering”,
And that was all from just the first search page on “Mollitiam Industries”.
It also showed two other,”Mollitiam” companies that I assume are totaly unrelated one deals with Human Resources related stuff, the other with I assume “Medical can-i-bis”.
[1] Yes I know, who RT is, but generally they do “white propaganda” and I’ve not yet found a technology article where I could not verify the details elsewhere.