Apparently NSW Police has been spending part of its annual budgets on surveillance malware programs which will remotely infect the computers/mobile devices of its preferred target individuals.
In today’s money that is well over $2 million for the five licenses which are currently active.
Wikileaks Spy Files
The company FinFisher (part of the Gamma Group headquaqtered in Munich, Germany) obligingly supplies this description of FinSpy:
While FinIntrusion allows NSW Police to do the following:
The Australian Federal Police will neither confirm nor deny that is also using this malware.
On 6 August 2014 Netzpolitik reported that:
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.
In
November 2012 a public service
announcement prepared by the US Government Internet Crime Complaint Center identified
FinFisher as supplying malware and spyware capable of taking over the components of a mobile
device. When installed the mobile device can be remotely controlled and
monitored no matter where the Target is located. FinFisher can be easily
transmitted to a Smartphone when the user visits a specific web link or opens a
text message masquerading as a system update.
Gamma
Group’s Martin Münch/Muench with exploit seller VULPEN’s CEO & Head of Research Chaouki Bekrar
July 2014
Source: Netspolitik
Despite the police having accquired a number of new 'toys', Australian government requests for user data held by Google Inc continue:
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