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Mozilla to FinSpy: stop disguising your “lawful interception” spyware as Firefox – Boing Boing


Boing Boing

Mozilla to FinSpy: stop disguising your "lawful interception" spyware as Firefox
Boing Boing
The Mozilla Foundation has sent a legal threat to Gamma International, a UK company that makes a product called "FinSpy" that is used by governments, including brutal dictatorships to spy on dissidents. FinSpy allows these governments to hijack their
'FinSpy' Spyware Spoofs Mozilla Firefox BrowserInfopackets
Gamma International disguised FinSpy program as popular Web browser, report TechCentral.ie
Mozilla accuses Gamma of dressing up dictators' spyware as FirefoxRegister
ThinkProgress –brandchannel.com
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Mozilla accuses Gamma of dressing up dictators’ spyware as Firefox – Register


BBC News

Mozilla accuses Gamma of dressing up dictators' spyware as Firefox
Register
At the centre of the allegations is Gamma's FinSpy program [PDF], which is deployed by cops and G-men to infiltrate a suspect's PC and allow it to be controlled from a remote server. It is claimed FinSpy masquerades as a harmless copy of the Firefox
Mozilla moves to stop spyware company from spoofing FirefoxCSO
Mozilla Takes Aim at Spyware That Masquerades as FirefoxWired (blog)
Mozilla Targets Spyware Masquerading as FirefoxPC Magazine
TechEye –PC Pro –Ars Technica
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The Undetectable Spyware Used by Repressive Arab Regimes Is Taking Over … – Motherboard (blog)


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 undercoverRegister
PM: surveillance software may be used in LatviaThe Baltic Course

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Ethiopia using spyware to monitor political activists: report – Sudan Tribune

Ethiopia using spyware to monitor political activists: report
Sudan Tribune
“The existence of a FinSpy sample that contains Ethiopia-specific imagery and that communicates with a still-active command and control server in Ethiopia strongly suggests that the Ethiopian government is using FinSpy,” said Morgan Marquis-Boire,

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