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14.3.13

FinFisher: Researchers find German-made spyware... | Stuff.co.nz: The discovery of a new group of servers linked to an elusive espionage campaign is providing new details about a German-made, high-tech piece of spy software that some fear may be used to target dissidents by oppressive regimes.
A Canadian research centre said that it had identified 25 different countries that host servers linked to FinFisher, a Trojan horse program which can dodge anti-virus protections to steal data, log keystrokes, eavesdrop on Skype calls, and turn microphones and webcams into live surveillance devices.
Citizen Lab, based at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs, said that Canada, Mexico, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Serbia, and Vietnam were among the host countries newly identified in the report.


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