[governance] Catalog of the mass surveillance industry

[Louis Pouzin (well)]

FinFisher, an addition to the mass surveillance club.

*Authors:* Morgan Marquis-Boire, Bill Marczak, Claudio Guarnieri, and John
Scott-Railton.
(Citizenlab.org)
Summary of Key Findings

   - We have found command and control servers for FinSpy backdoors, part
   of Gamma International’s FinFisher “remote monitoring solution,” in a total
   of 25 countries: Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brunei, Canada, Czech
   Republic, Estonia, Ethiopia, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Latvia,
   Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Netherlands, Qatar, Serbia, Singapore,
   Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam.


   - A FinSpy campaign in Ethiopia uses pictures of Ginbot 7, an Ethiopian
   opposition group, as bait to infect users. This continues the theme of
   FinSpy deployments with strong indications of politically-motivated
   targeting.


   - There is strong evidence of a Vietnamese FinSpy Mobile Campaign. We
   found an Android FinSpy Mobile sample in the wild with a command & control
   server in Vietnam that also exfiltrates text messages to a local phone
   number.


   - These findings call into question claims by Gamma International that
   previously reported servers were *not* part of their product line, and
   that previously discovered copies of their software were either stolen or
   demo copies.


https://citizenlab.org/2013/03/you-only-click-twice-finfishers-global-proliferation-2/
http://surveillance.rsf.org/en/gamma-international/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FinFisher
https://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002114.html
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/finfisher.pdf   (in arabic)







<https://citizenlab.org/2013/03/you-only-click-twice-finfishers-global-proliferation-2/>




On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 7:07 AM, Louis Pouzin (well) <pouzin at well.com> wrote:

> A shopping list of active providers:
>
>
> http://www.salon.com/2013/01/31/meet_the_contractors_turning_americas_police_into_a_paramilitary_force/?source=newsletter&utm_source=contactology&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Salon_Daily%20Newsletter%20%28Premium%29_7_30_110
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> In addition to well known big names, ATT, Boeing, Facebook, Google, NSA,
> etc.
> Creeping police State.
>
>
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