Infected Microsoft Office documents particularly PowerPoint slides were used to spy on people

Infected Microsoft Office documents particularly PowerPoint slides were used to spy on people Digital Rights Foundation said on Friday based on files leaked recently using software developed by surveillance software developer FinFisher, . FinFisher customer support portals were hacked earlier in August and nearly 40Gb of data was leaked on to the internet through torrents. According to the leaked documents, someone from Pakistan had leased three software based products of FinFisher for a period of three years starting in 2010. It is not clear who in Pakistan had leased the software. Earlier in August, leaked files revealed that software manufactured by the German company had been used in Bahrain for spying on protesters. The software was used to track, among others, human rights lawyers.