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OECD Ruling Denounces 'FinFisher' Spyware
SPAMfighter News (press release) FinFisher, its other name FinSpy, contaminates computers via exploitation of security flaws within different software, including Apple iTunes, alternatively gets planted through deceiving somebody and making him click and execute a file attached in e-mail. |
The Register |
FinFisher, the spyware loved by cruel dictators, stomps all over human rights …
The Register FinFisher, also known as FinSpy, infects PCs by exploiting vulnerabilities in Apple iTunes and other software, or is simply installed by tricking someone into opening and running an email attachment. Once in place, it uses a rootkit to hide itself from … |
Sky News Australia |
Yawn, Wikileaks, we already knew about FinFisher. But these software binaries…
Register FinFisher Relay and FinSpy Proxy are the components of the FinFisher suite designed to collect data from infected victims and deliver it to surveillance operators, respectively. WikiLeaks has published both alongside previously unreleased copies of the … WikiLeaks Releases FinFisher Surveillance Spyware to the Masses Governments spy on journalists with weaponized malware – WikiLeaks NSW Police named by Wikileaks for 'surveillance malware' use |
Wikileaks has released what it claims are previously unknown fourth-generation versions of the controversial ‘government’ FinFisher spyware, lambasting the German Government for allowing it to be sold to “some of the most abusive regimes in the world.”
In a media announcement fronted with statements from Ecuadorian embassy refugee and editor in chief Julian Assange himself, Wikileaks offered the files for a number of the spyware’s components, including Relay 4.3, Proxy 2.1, and Master 2.1, and zips containing ‘weaponised’ executables for the Windows FinSpy client used to monitor events such as a Skype conversation.
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