MiniPanzer and MegaPanzer are two variants of ''Bundestrojaner'' (German for federal

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) written for ERA IT Solutions (a Swiss federal government contractor) by software engineer Ruben Unteregger, and later used by Switzerland's

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(UVEK) to intercept

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and more generally

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traffic on

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systems. The

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of the program was released under the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3) in 2009 by their author, who retained the copyright. Thereafter, the trojan was apparently detected in the wild. One of its designations given by anti-virus companies was ''Trojan.Peskyspy''. The malware used

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MiniPanzer
SourceForge, source code
MegaPanzer
SourceForge source code Computer surveillance Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications Windows trojans Malware toolkits Spyware used by governments Free software programmed in C++ Software using the GNU General Public License {{Malware-stub

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