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Internet Users Tricked Into Downloading 'Firefox' Spyware Internet users tricked into downloading 'Firefox' spyware UPDATED  FRI 3 MAY 2013, 8:27 AM AEST Email   Facebook   Twitter   WhatsApp 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