The article is awfully light on what exactly was sold to the Ugandan government.<p>The article states the technology can be used,<p>&quot;to spy on the enemy, collect data, intrude enemy systems, intercept enemy communication and also manipulate transmissions.
&quot;It can covertly be deployed in buildings, vehicles, computers, mobile phones, cameras and any other equipment deemed worthy for information extraction or surveillance.&quot;<p>I mean from the article it could be anything - a software interface on top of standard CCTV cameras, voice activated microphones on government and government sympathizer personal electronic devices or just a piece of analytic software for parsing through data they&#x27;ve already collected.<p>Doing a bit more digging it appears that Finfisher (the tech sold to Uganda by Gamma Group) is a spyware tool that uses common security exploits including phishing and social engineering to infect target devices and monitor them. It appears to do this in a somewhat automated, click-to-launch, way.