From Hacking Team to Memento: A Troubled Legacy in Spyware

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Memento Labs emerged in 2019 after Lezzi bought Hacking Team — once notorious for selling surveillance software to regimes in Ethiopia, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan — for just one euro.
Hacking Team collapsed after a 2015 hack by activist Phineas Fisher, who leaked 400 GB of internal files, exposing the company’s controversial clients.
Lezzi vowed to “start from scratch,” but the discovery of Dante suggests a continuation of Hacking Team’s spyware evolution, rebranded under a new name.