Chennai: The National Security Agency is probing an alert from cyber security experts on weaponised surveillance software used by Pakistan and Bangladesh intelligence to spy on computers and mobile phones used by Indian politicians, journalists and security establishments.
Following the most recent Wikileaks release, titled “Spyfiles 4”, on surveillance malware FinSpy, cyber security experts claim that several computers and mobile phones of important people could have been compromised, exposing a huge chink in Indian cyberspace.
On September 15, Wikileaks released copies of the weaponised German surveillance malware, FinFisher, that had been used by intelligence agencies around the world to spy on journalists, political dissidents and others.
Experts at Cyber Security and Privacy Foundation here isolated records of Pakistan-based users accessing FinFisher products to spy on Indians.
