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Unknown FinSpy Mac and Linux versions found in Egypt

Security Affairs

Experts from Amnesty International uncovered a surveillance campaign that targeted Egyptian civil society organizations with a new version of FinSpy spyware. Since 2011 it was employed in attacks aimed at Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) in many countries, including Bahrain, Ethiopia, UAE, and more. ” continues the analysis.

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FinSpy: unseen findings

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Kaspersky has been tracking deployments of this spyware since 2011. The 32-bit Trojan Loader, which is launched regardless of the victim machine architecture, checks if it is running on a 64-bit system. This script determines the victim machine architecture. The Trojan Loader. eq 0 ];then rm -rf "$0" fi exit 0.