Source: NY Times.
It is one of the more elusive commercial cyberespionage tools available. It is marketed as a way for governments to spy on criminals. And for over a year, virus hunters unsuccessfully tried to track it down. Now it is popping up across the globe, from Qatar to an Amazon server in the United States.
FinFisher is a spyware product manufactured by the Gamma Group, a British company that sells surveillance technology. It says its spyware offers “world-class offensive techniques for information gathering.” According to FinFisher’s promotional materials, the spyware can be “used to access target systems, giving full access to stored information with the ability to take control of the target system’s functions to the point of capturing encrypted data and communications.”
Categories: Internet, Science, Science and Technology, Technology, United States
This seems to be a new age of cyber warfare, be it state sponsored or private. News feeds are filling up with Stauxnet, flame and its variations. Judging by the feature set of these malware, a significant amount of planning and resources are utilized to make these programs, state of the art.