Trojan Fox: Internet Users Tricked Into Downloading 'Firefox' Spyware

"The Mozilla Foundation has accused UK software group Gamma International of tricking internet users into downloading surveillance software by falsely associating it with the Firefox name.

Finfisher is legitimate monitoring software thought to be used by governments to covertly obtain data.
But it can be installed unknowingly by computer users and is often disguised as an update to a well-known browser - like Firefox.
The University of Toronto research group, The Citizen Lab, says it believes Finfisher servers are currently active in 36 countries, including Australia.
An excerpt from a report by the group released this week, 
titled  
For Their Eyes Only: The Commercialisation of Digital Spying, 
states:

The booby-trapped document embeds a copy of FinSpy that masquerades as legitimate Mozilla Firefox software.
This is not the first time that a FinSpy sample has used the "Mozilla Firefox" product name to masquerade as legitimate software.
Samples from the FinSpy campaign targeting Bahraini activists last year used an assembly manifest that impersonated Mozilla's Firefox browser.

In 2011, the BBC found documents in Egypt's state security building, which suggested Gamma International offered to supply Finfisher to the Egyptian government to monitor activists.
The company denied it did, but files seen by the BBC describe a five-month trial which included successful access to email accounts and the recording of encrypted Skype calls.
The Mozilla Foundation has now sent a cease and desist letter, warning Gamma International not to use the Firefox name, as camouflage for the surveillance program.
"Our brand and trademarks are used by the spyware as a method to avoid detection and deletion," Mozilla chief privacy officer Alex Fowler said in a statement.
"As an open source project trusted by hundreds of millions of people around the world, defending Mozilla's trademarks from this abuse is vital to our brand, mission and continued success.""
Internet users tricked into downloading 'Firefox' spyware

Trojan Foxx? I think
I've been XX by MIV;-)

Eye in the sky?

Eye in the Sky?

UPDATE:

On the subject of double X's, Kris Kross

Chris "Mac Daddy" Kelly has died of a suspected drug overdose today.
 The Kris Kross duo of Kelly and Chris "Daddy Mac" Smith was best known for Jump, which topped the mainstream US music charts in 1992 when Kelly and Smith were both 13.
Drug overdose blamed for Kris Kross rapper's death 

Which reminded me of this movie about computer espionage -

Whoopi as an X?

Foxx as an X?

Jump - Mystikal

Just remember all of that when you are jumping around the net;-)
Everlasting Digital Life 

(HUNGRY BEAST)