[lbo-talk] your anti-virus is worthless if government wants to spy on you

Fernando Cassia fcassia at gmail.com
Sun Sep 2 11:27:10 PDT 2012


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"According to CitizenLab's research and WikiLeaks cables, following should be the supported features":

Bypassing of 40 regularly tested Antivirus Systems

Covert Communication with Headquarters

Full Skype Monitoring (Calls, Chats, File Transfers, Video, Contact List)

Recording of common communication like Email, Chats and Voice-over-IP

Live Surveillance through Webcam and Microphone

Country Tracing of Target

Silent extracting of Files from Hard-Disk

Process-based Key-logger for faster analysis

Live Remote Forensics on Target System

Advanced Filters to record only important information

Supports most common Operating Systems (Windows, Mac OSX and Linux) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ------ source: http://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/22202-FinFisher-The-Cyber-Espionage-Tool-Found-Everywhere.html

more here, including a mind-blowing account on how a special unicode character in the filename of the spyware installer along the awesome security of the windows shell is used to trick users into seeing "something.jpg.exe" as "something.exe.jpg" and double click on it...

https://citizenlab.org/2012/07/from-bahrain-with-love-finfishers-spy-kit-exposed/

FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act Durante épocas de Engaño Universal, decir la verdad se convierte en un Acto Revolucionario - George Orwell



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