Spies for Hire
“Imagine that there’s a person of interest at the Dubai Mall. ... We
press a button and BOOM! All the devices in the mall are infected and
traceable.”
In July, Simone Margaritelli, an Italian security researcher, boarded a Boeing 777 in Rome headed for Dubai, a city now billing itself as a tech startup hub.
He had a big job interview with a new, well-funded cybersecurity company called DarkMatter,
whose self-described mission is to “safeguard the most complex
organizations,” from government to the private sector, by preventing and
fighting malicious cyberattacks and providing secure methods of
communication — defensive cybersecurity, rather than offensive, which
involves breaking into online systems and devices for espionage or
destruction.
