Wikileaks has released the copies of weaponized malware used by NSW Police and other various governments around the world for snooping on individuals. This release consists of the customers list that has name of police forces and government around the world, major names coming forward are NSW(New South Wales), Forces of Netherlands, Italian & Bosnian governments. FinFisher is coming into controversy very often, and is commonly found for common malware techniques. Whereas on one hand it compromises on desktop, its also used for spying on mobile systems like iOS, Android etc.

WikiLeaks Julian Assange Editor-in-Chief said "FinFisher continues to operate brazenly from Germany selling weaponised surveillance malware to some of the most abusive regimes in the world. The Merkel government pretends to be concerned about privacy, but its actions speak otherwise.

Its claimed in the release that releasing the software to parts of organisation is for global surveillance, although if the software is made freely available to world, it would be a risk of its own. Assange further said that, The main aim is to provide help to people so as to develop tools that can protect against these softwares and they would be helpful for providing tracks to commands & control centers. According to the price list, WikiLeaks estimates that FinFisher licence sales brought about 48 to 98 million euros, which is estimated to be higher whereas ISP licences are not been included in the costs. The software is said to be produced by German company Named Gamma Group International, which was previously UK based company.Source: Wikileaks