IThe Court of Appeal of Naples has confirmed the house arrest of Diego Fasano, 46, and Salvatore Ansani, 42, respectively de facto administrator and director of the IT infrastructure of E-Surv, arrested in a joint blitz by the Ros, GdF and Postal Police, last May 22, as part of the investigation by the cybercrime section of the Naples Prosecutor's Office into the Exodus spy software. Through the computer 'captator', designed by the Calabrian company E-Surv and used illegally, according to what emerged from the investigations, approximately 80 Terabytes of data relating to investigative and computer interception activities of numerous Italian prosecutors' offices were illegally transferred to Amazon's clouds in the United States. In Fasano and Ansani the investigators (the prosecutors Onorati, Curatoli and Pavia, coordinated by the deputy prosecutor Vincenzo Piscitelli) contest the crimes – continued and in conjunction – of unauthorized access to computer systems, illicit interceptions, illicit data processing and fraud in public supplies. The approximately 80 terabytes of data are attributable to over 800 interception activities, many of which, 234, were carried out without the investigators' knowledge, through 'infection' of devices such as computers, tablets and cell phones.
Article published on 12 June 2019 - 18:20
