#Spyware

NEW: We found a spy company’s malicious, fake WhatsApp download page.Technical analyses by Citizen Lab and Motherboard found links between the fake version of WhatsApp and Cy4gate, a provider of
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So bad: Over 600 documented assaults, killings etc. by 31 authoritarian states... in OTHER countries in recent years.This #TransnationalRepression is regularly aided by surveillance tech, like spyware.Essential essay by @abramowitz
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Today we’re publishing some new interviews and documents on NSO Group and the whole surveillance industry. Here is a thread that I hope provides some new insight into the surveillance
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Great new report by @kjberdan (now part of the @citizenlab team!) on the overwhelming and fractured digital security advice out there for journalists: https://cltc.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Online_Security_Guides_for_Journalis
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BREAKING: Access Now, @amnesty, @pressfreedom, @internetfreedom, @ParadigmHQ, @privacyint, @RSF_en & @R3Dmx filed an amicus brief calling on the U.S. Court to hold NSO Group accountable for the @WhatsApp hack that
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BREAKING: @Microsoft @Google @Cisco @LinkedIn @github @VMware & @InternetAssn joining the @WhatsApp v. #NSOGroup case w/an Amicus brief THREAD 1/ 2. Brief begins with #NotPetya attack. Says: Shows how dangerous
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For your lunchtime* long read this afternoon, I'd like to point you to some work I'm quite proud of that was published today.SophosLabs found what we now suspect may be
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This story on Wirecard fugitive CEO Jan Marsalek is insane, can't tell yet if all of it is true but it is insane.How did a con artist like this get
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Mexico's new copyright law was rushed through its Congress without debate or consultation, copy-pasting the US copyright system into Mexican law as though America's system was working perfectly.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/
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Thread: New @citizenlab research points to possible government clients of Circles surveillance firm. Raising concerns that journalists could be among the targets, CPJ has documented #pressfreedom violations in countries they
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This is an important perspective people need to consider when talking about security issues of an app. Signal does not defend against a fully compromised phone, neither is it responsible
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Dang! Notorious spyware company NSO Group is marketing #COVID19 tracking in US, according to @NBCNightlyNews. Time to go CSI on screenshots of the product. THREAD So I assembled as many
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Thread: how not to make it easy for cops when communicating online?#BlackLivesMatter #Pride #Protests #Activism #Antifascism Instead of using @discord to organize (proprietary, closed-source, centralized and unencrypted), @RiotChat
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World Economic Forum says "you'll own nothing and be happy". This is the most ridiculous and impractical idea. I once read about how they think this would work in practice
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MAJOR REPORT: zero-click #0day in #iMessage used to infect 36 ppl @Aljazeera w/ NSO spyware. We attribute to UAE & Saudi Arabia w/medium confidence. THREAD https://citizenlab.ca/2020/12/the-great-ipwn-journalists-hacked-with-suspected-n
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Stories like this remind me that people in the Infosec community routinely make and sell exploits to these nations.https://citizenlab.ca/2020/12/the-great-ipwn-journalists-hacked-with-suspected-nso-group-imessage-zero-click-exploit/ I’m h
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