A spying tool known as FinFisher is involved in a seven-country campaign that most likely involves “complicit” internet providers helping to infect targets of surveillance, according to researchers with the cybersecurity firm ESET. “In two of the campaigns, the spyware has been spread via a man-in-the-middle attack and we believe that major internet providers have played the role of the man in the middle,” Filip Kafka, the ESET malware analyst who conducted the research, explained.

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