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Gamma FinFisher hacked: 40 GB of internal documents and source code of government malware published

08 August 2014

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"A hacker claims to have hacked a network of the surveillance technology company Gamma International and has published 40 gigabytes of internal data. A Twitter account has published release notes, price lists – and source code. Malware researchers and human rights activists welcome the publication, Gamma itself refuses to comment."

See the article: Gamma FinFisher hacked: 40 GB of internal documents and source code of government malware published (Netzpolitik, link)

And see: Wiki: Finfisher (link) and also: German police instructed Tunisia and Egypt on internet surveillance prior to revolutions (Statewatch database) and: Complaint lodged with OECD by Privacy International over spyware sales by UK and Germany to Bahrain (Statewatch database)

And: Bahrain Government Hacked Lawyers and Activists with UK Spyware (Bahrainwatch, link): "New evidence has emerged suggesting that the Bahraini government infected the computers of some of the country’s most prominent lawyers, activists and politicians with the malicious FinFisher spy software (also known as FinSpy). The infections would have enabled the government to steal passwords and files, and spy through an infected computer’s webcam and microphone."

See also: Six things we know from the latest FinFisher documents (PI, link)

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