Phineas Fisher

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Phineas Fisher (also known as Phisher ) is a hacker personality or the cover name of a hacker collective. The user appeared for the first time in 2015. Phineas Fisher linked a torrent on Twitter, behind which all the trade secrets of the Italian company Hacking Team were hidden, including advertising material such as flyers and promotional videos.

Phineas Fisher leaked trade secrets from the German-British company Gamma FinFisher, which produces the highly controversial spy software FinFisher .

Phineas Fisher appears again and again in connection with attacks on companies that enable surveillance and produce digital espionage or tools of repression. In an interview, Fisher also confesses to a digital bank robbery. With reference to a Chinese proverb, Fisher's hacking guide aims to: "Give a person an exploit and he can gain access for a day. Teach him phish and he will have access all his life." However, Fisher did not proceed to hack the bank with special phishing methods but reached using the Shellshock - Exploits in a firewall from SonicWALL .

Fisher attracted attention in November 2019 with an unusual bug bounty program . For every successful attack, depending on the public interest and the impact of the hack, as well as the associated effort, a premium should be paid to hackers. Phineas Fisher wants to create a counterbalance to government gratuities in order to protect civil society from security loopholes caused by so-called zero days .

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  1. ↑ Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai: Phineas Fisher unpacks: The first video interview of the alleged AKP hacker. In: Vice. July 22, 2016, accessed December 10, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Andre Meister: Gamma FinFisher hacked: Promotional videos of exploits and source code published by FinFly Web. In: netzpolitik.org. August 6, 2014, accessed December 10, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ Andre Meister: Gamma FinFisher: Twitter account publishes internal documents about state Trojans used worldwide. In: netzpolitik.org. August 5, 2014, accessed December 10, 2019 (German).
  4. ↑ Joseph Cox: A Hacker Claims to Have Leaked 40GB of Docs on Government Spy Tool FinFisher. In: Vice. August 7, 2014, accessed December 10, 2019 .
  5. ↑ heise online: Hackers are said to have stolen data from offshore banks. Retrieved December 10, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Guest post: Hack Back! A do-it-yourself guide for those who don't have the patience to wait for whistleblowers. In: netzpolitik.org. August 14, 2014, accessed December 10, 2019 (German).
  7. ↑ Phineas Fisher: $ 100,000 for anti-capitalist company hacks - Golem.de. Accessed December 10, 2019 (German).