Four civil liberty organisations point, including Amnesty International and the American Electronic Frontier Foundation, introduce a scanner, which under more overheidsspyware must recognize. This can include spyware that the Dutch police would use.
For the free and open source tool, which beveiligingsonderzoeker Claudio Guarnieri developed, working Amnesty and the EFF, together with Privacy International and the German burgerrechtenorganisatie Digital Gesellschaft. Detekt, as the tool is called, may be subject to more malware from FinFisher and HackingTeam recognize. Governments use both malwarevarianten; the Dutch police would FinFisher also use, appeared earlier this summer, leaked documents.
The tool can also detect some types of spyware that comes from criminals, such as Blackshades. Detekt is not able to all the spyware recognize and in addition spyware can now be updated in order to avoid detection. Also point the tool is only for spyware and not, for example, ransomware, malware that files of users encrypts.
The software used pattern recognition to malware and works not otherwise than most security software. For now, the tool is only suitable for Windows; Detekt supports Windows XP up to Windows 8.1, but a bug make sure that the tool is not working on Windows 8.1 installations on 64-bit machines.
Detekt recommends users who find that they are indeed spyware on their computer, the internet connection to shut off and a expert to consult. To this end, generates Detekt a logfile that a beveiligingsonderzoeker can read.
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