The ill-famed FinFisher spyware is growing in popularity with government agencies around the planet and 32 states have been identified as users.

FinFisher is a state-of-the-art spyware package sold only to police forces and government agencies.

But a data violation last year, which happened in August put examination on clients and the secret company’s business practices. Snitched files put on the internet indicated beyond tracking offenders — such as spying upon high profile Bahraini activists FinFisher was being used for tasks. It’s thought that political resistance and dissidents, law firms, journalists from Ethiopia and in Bahrain have also been tracked through FinFisher.

In a fresh investigation monitoring users of the spyware package, Citizen Lab said 32 states include a minumum of one government entity who’s “likely” using FinFisher.

“Despite the 2014 FinFisher violation, and following disclosure of sensitive customer data, our scan has found more servers in more states than in the past,” Citizen Lab remarked.

The Citizen Lab team formulated a strategy query and to unravel FinFisher proxies to monitor the real location of the master servers of the spyware regardless of using redirections and decoy site pages.

As master servers are set up on the assumptions of FinFisher clients, the team could pinpoint the places of users — and so which bureaus and states were likely to use the program.

Moreover, sometimes, Citizen Lab managed to unmask individual bureaus by fitting scan results with public sources, including e-mails from the competition Hacking Team of FinFisher earlier this year, that was hacked.