The Intercept – First Look Media |
After Arab Spring, Surveillance in Egypt Intensifies
The Intercept – First Look Media Other Internet monitoring softwares, like FinSpy from the U.K.-based Gamma International, and Remote Control System from the Italian-based company Hacking Team, have also won contracts with the Egyptian government. In March 2011, protestors broke … |
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Arab Uprising: Information Security in the Middle East
Infosecurity Magazine It's easy to forget that some of the most highly sophisticated malware attacks – Stuxnet, Flame, Gauss, Duqu – all targeted Middle Eastern installations. Stuxnet was directed at Iran's nuclear facilities. Flame was seemingly targeted at PCs in Iran … |
 The Baltic Course |
The Undetectable Spyware Used by Repressive Arab Regimes Is Taking Over …
Motherboard (blog) Canadian researchers say that the FinSpy is now active in 25 countries around the world who appear to be fairly succesfully covering their tracks. At first glance, this isn't necessarily illegal or totally awful. This is commercial software with uses … FinFisher spyware goes global, mobile and undercover PM: surveillance software may be used in Latvia |
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Bahrain's Invisible Arab Spring
Dissident Voice British software company Gamma supposedly developed FinSpy to assist governments agencies in “criminal investigations.” Thus it's curious how Bahrain and other repressive Middle East regimes got hold of it to monitor pro-democracy activists. FinSpy has … |