Singapore’s connection to the Hacking Team – it’s well known that HT has a Singapore presence. The local market appears to be quite receptive of them. In one of the leaks, it was revealed that they also tried to recruit local researchers to develop 0-day for them.
In April of 2014, Hacking Team attended the SyScan conference in Singapore with the intention of recruiting new exploit developers.
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They succeeded in making contact with several researchers interested in working with them, including Eugene Ching.
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Interestingly, Eugene’s responsibility with the Singaporean Army, presumably for his mandatory service, is to test and fix 0day exploits that they purchase.
Read more details here.