Finfisher Spyware Use By Governments Expanding, Masquerades as Firefox

nk497 writes "Mozilla has sent a cease-and-desist order to Gamma International, after it was revealed the controversial creator of spyware for governments was disguising itself as Firefox on PCs. 'We cannot abide a software company using our name to disguise online surveillance tools that can be — and in several cases actually have been — used by Gamma's customers to violate citizens' human rights and online privacy,' Mozilla said." DavidGilbert99 writes on the wider implications of the Citizen Lab report: "Governmental spying software has been in the news a lot in recent months and today Citizen Lab has revealed its latest findings, showing that one of the most prolific tools in use, Finfisher, is now in use in 36 countries around the world [beware the auto playing video ads with sound]." And, Voulnet adds "According to analysis and report by CitizenLab of the Gamma FinFisher trojan spyware used against dissidents in the middle east and around the world, the FinFisher codebase uses the LGPL GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library, possibly without adhering to its distribution restrictions."

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Re:Sue, sue, sue

[Anonymous Coward]

Whenever I hear of Firefox now, I'm going to associate the name with Malware and probably just use something else.

You know malware is effective when you see retards posting things like this. Absolutely nothing wrong with the real Firefox and yet he wants to avoid using it for no good reason.

I guess you don't use a web browser and you send mail to a daemon?