11 Facts About FinFisher

FinFisher, known as FinSpy, is surveillance software marketed by Lench IT Solutions plc, which markets the spyware through law enforcement channels.

FinFisher can be covertly installed on targets' computers by exploiting security lapses in the update procedures of non-suspect software.

FinFisher has been criticized by human rights organizations for selling these capabilities to repressive or non-democratic states known for monitoring and imprisoning political dissidents.

FinFisher GmbH opened insolvency proceedings at the Munich Local Court on 02.

FinFisher malware is installed in various ways, including fake software updates, emails with fake attachments, and security flaws in popular software.

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Security flaw in iTunes that FinFisher is reported to have exploited was first described in 2008 by security software commentator Brian Krebs.

FinFisher has been found to engage in politically motivated targeting.

FinFisher technology was used in Bahrain and Reporters Without Borders, together with Privacy International, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, and Bahrain Watch filed an Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development complaint, asking the National Contact Point in the United Kingdom to further investigate Gamma's possible involvement in Bahrain.

Since then research has shown that FinFisher technology was used in Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Britain, Brunei, Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Ethiopia, Germany, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Netherlands, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Qatar, Romania, Serbia, Singapore, South Africa, Turkey, Turkmenistan, the United Arab Emirates, the United States, Venezuela and Vietnam.

FinFisher is capable of masquerading as other more legitimate programs, such as Mozilla Firefox.

FinFisher has made headlines in the past because its products were found to be used by authoritarian regimes against opponents in several Middle Eastern countries.