Here's a rather technical article on what they are apparently up to: https://reverse.put.as/2016/02/29/the-italian-morons-are-bac...

HackingTeam latest sample is a very fresh sample compared with what we got in the past, it is a sample created post July 2015 hack, and it’s using the same code base as before. HackingTeam is still alive and kicking but they are still the same crap morons as the email leaks have shown us.