Tag: finfisher
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Turkish Twitter users targeted with mobile FinFisher spyware
A new research paper by digital rights organization Access Now looks at how FinFisher has been used against people interested in anti-government protests in Turkey. Through fake social media accounts, users were tricked into installing an Android application which was actually a mobile version of the FinFisher spyware. The use of a massive campaign, as…
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Turkish Twitter users targeted with mobile FinFisher spyware
A new research paper by digital rights organization Access Now looks at how FinFisher has been used against people interested in anti-government protests in Turkey. Through fake social media accounts, users were tricked into installing an Android application which was actually a mobile version of the FinFisher spyware. The use of a massive campaign, as…
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VB2017 video: FinFisher: New techniques and infection vectors revealed
Over the last few years, the infamous FinFisher government spyware (already the subject of a VB2013 paper ) has done a good job of staying under the radar. Recently, however, it made the news because of its use of the then zero-day CVE-2017-8759 and the likely involvement of ISPs in targets getting infected. In a…
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VB2017 video: FinFisher: New techniques and infection vectors revealed
Over the last few years, the infamous FinFisher government spyware (already the subject of a VB2013 paper ) has done a good job of staying under the radar. Recently, however, it made the news because of its use of the then zero-day CVE-2017-8759 and the likely involvement of ISPs in targets getting infected. In a…
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Hot FinSpy research completes VB2017 programme
The infamous FinSpy (or FinFisher) government spyware has managed to keep a low profile in recent years, though its use of two Microsoft zero-days ( CVE-2017-0199 and CVE-2017-8759 ) this year shows that it is still active. Today, researchers from ESET have published new research which points to the spyware using a different infection method:…
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Hot FinSpy research completes VB2017 programme
The infamous FinSpy (or FinFisher) government spyware has managed to keep a low profile in recent years, though its use of two Microsoft zero-days ( CVE-2017-0199 and CVE-2017-8759 ) this year shows that it is still active. Today, researchers from ESET have published new research which points to the spyware using a different infection method:…
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Opposition activists in Asia and Africa targeted by spyware developed by Western companies
Mozilla angry about use of its brand and logo. A new report has been released on the commercialization of digital spying, which thoroughly analyses a number of pieces of spyware developed by Western companies and used to target opposition activists in various countries in Africa and Asia. CitizenLab , a research institute linked to the…