Mozilla, the creator of the Firefox browser, has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Gamma International, a German company that sells spyware to governments and law enforcement agencies. The move was a reaction to the news that a booby-trapped Microsoft Word document — sent out for upcoming Malaysian elections — embeds a copy of Gamma’s FinSpy spyware that masquerades as a Firefox executable. That news was disclosed in a report from Citizen Lab published on Tuesday.
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The Real Mozilla Stands Up to Firefox-Cloaked Spyware
Posted by: Richard Adhikari May 2, 2013 05:00 AMMozilla, the creator of the Firefox browser, has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Gamma International, a German company that sells spyware to governments and law enforcement agencies. The move was a reaction to the news that a booby-trapped Microsoft Word document — sent out for upcoming Malaysian elections — embeds a copy of Gamma’s FinSpy spyware that masquerades as a Firefox executable. That news was disclosed in a report from Citizen Lab published on Tuesday.