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Naked Security – Sophos
The Guardian |
Spyware exports will need a licence under new EU rules
The Guardian The company's FinSpy software was offered for sale to Egyptian security services in June 2010, according to documents seen by the Guardian in 2011, and activists from Bahrain and Ethiopia claim to have been targeted by it. The spyware can infect PCs … |
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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Russian botnet suspects cuffed over romantic MMS spyware allegs
Register Towards the end of 2013, the security service of Sberbank detected a cyber attack on owners of Android smartphones. The attackers infected the phones with malicious software through mass mailing of MMS messages from "RomanticVK" or "VK_Gift" with the … |