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Journalists Hacked with Suspected NSO Group iMessage ’Zero-Click’ Exploit - 21 décembre 2020
Summary & Key Findings
In July and August 2020, government operatives used NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware to hack 36 personal phones belonging to journalists, producers, anchors, and executives at Al Jazeera. The personal phone of a journalist at London-based Al Araby TV was also hacked.
The phones were (...)
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Les iPhone de journalistes d’Al-Jazira ciblés par des logiciels d’espionnage ultrasophistiqués - 21 décembre 2020
Des dizaines d’iPhone de journalistes de la chaîne d’informations qatarie ont été surveillés de manière indétectable grâce à des outils de l’entreprise israélienne NSO Group, révèle un rapport du Citizen Lab de Toronto, expert dans l’étude des logiciels espions.
Les iPhone de dizaines d’employés de la chaîne d’information (...)
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NSO Group WhatsApp hack victims speak out, from India to Rwanda - 19 décembre 2020
Around the world, governments are using surveillance tools they have purchased from Israeli spyware firm NSO Group — the infamous creator of Pegasus — to monitor and crack down on human rights defenders. Access Now and our partners have repeatedly called on NSO Group and its investors to stop providing its products (...)
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Spying on Mexican journalists : investigating the lucrative market of cyber-surveillance - 8 décembre 2020
Despite repeated scandals, the global cyber-surveillance industry continues to supply Mexico with more and more invasive technologies, assisted by well-connected intermediaries. Multiple journalists have been targeted by these tools, but Mexican authorities remain unconcerned. Veracruz, the state with the highest (...)
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Espionnage des journalistes mexicains : enquête sur le marché très rentable de la cyber surveillance - 8 décembre 2020
Malgré des scandales à répétition, l’industrie mondiale de la cyber surveillance, aidée par quelques intermédiaires bien connectés, continue de fournir au Mexique des technologies toujours plus invasives. Plusieurs journalistes ont été pris pour cible par ces outils sans qu’aucun responsable mexicain ne soit jamais (...)
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To Surveil and Predict - 14 septembre 2020
This report examines algorithmic technologies that are designed for use in criminal law enforcement systems. Algorithmic policing is an area of technological development that, in theory, is designed to enable law enforcement agencies to either automate surveillance or to draw inferences through the use of mass (...)
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Inside NSO, Israel’s billion-dollar spyware giant - 19 août 2020
The world’s most notorious surveillance company says it wants to clean up its act. Go on, we’re listening.
Maâti Monjib speaks slowly, like a man who knows he’s being listened to.
It’s the day of his 58th birthday when we speak, but there’s little celebration in his voice. “The surveillance is hellish,” Monjib tells (...)
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Ce groupe de hackers mercenaires vantait ses services... sur LinkedIn - 9 août 2020
Le Citizen Lab a révélé l’existence du groupe de hackers mercenaires Dark Basin. Alimenté par une entreprise indienne, il s’est attaqué à des centaines de victimes : journalistes, dirigeants, personnalités politiques... Mais les traces grossière laissées par ces membres ont permis de l’identifier.
Ce groupe de hackers (...)
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Dark Basin : Uncovering a Massive Hack-For-Hire Operation - 8 août 2020
Key Findings
Dark Basin is a hack-for-hire group that has targeted thousands of individuals and hundreds of institutions on six continents. Targets include advocacy groups and journalists, elected and senior government officials, hedge funds, and multiple industries.
Dark Basin extensively targeted American (...)
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Sumit Gupta : For whom the BellTrox - 8 août 2020
BENGALURU : Sumit Gupta, founder of BellTrox InfoTech Services, would exhort young recruits to hack into servers of targeted entities in return for more money, former employees of the Delhi-based company told ET. BellTrox was cited as a spy-for-hire firm by an internet watchdog group investigating an international (...)
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Obscure Indian cyber firm spied on politicians, investors worldwide - 8 août 2020
LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A little-known Indian IT firm offered its hacking services to help clients spy on more than 10,000 email accounts over a period of seven years.
New Delhi-based BellTroX InfoTech Services targeted government officials in Europe, gambling tycoons in the Bahamas, and well-known (...)
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Cyber-corsaires contre flibustiers du net - 8 août 2020
On aime les représenter borgnes, avec un bandeau noir sur leur œil perdu, avec une jambe de bois et un perroquet sur l’épaule. La révolution numérique a fait naître un genre nouveau de pirates tout aussi redoutables, bien moins mobiles maintenant que l’information circule à la vitesse de la lumière.
Comme leurs ancêtres (...)
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Pourquoi Donald Trump veut aussi interdire l’application de messagerie WeChat - 8 août 2020
Plus de 1 milliard de personnes dans le monde utilisent WeChat, propriété du géant technologique Tencent. Les deux noms figurent dans un décret signé par le président américain, voulant limiter leur présence aux Etats-Unis.
L’affrontement commercial entre les Etats-Unis et la Chine s’est poursuivi dans la nuit du jeudi 6 (...)
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Firm That Tracked Protesters Targeted Evangelicals During 2016 Election - 27 juin 2020
The CEO of data broker Mobilewalla, which worked with Republican SuperPACs, says it tracked Evangelicals’ cell phone locations for six months.
A data broker that tracked Black Lives Matter protesters also tracked the locations of Evangelical Christians on election day 2016 using their cell phones and used that (...)
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COVID-19 Digital Rights Tracker - 3 mai 2020
This live tracker documents new measures introduced in response to COVID-19 that pose a risk to digital rights around the world.
In response to the outbreak of COVID-19 :
Contact Tracing Apps are being used in 29 countries
Alternative digital tracking measures are active in 30 countries
Physical surveillance (...)
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Zoom’s Flawed Encryption Linked to China - 4 avril 2020
Meetings on Zoom, the increasingly popular video conferencing service, are encrypted using an algorithm with serious, well-known weaknesses, and sometimes using keys issued by servers in China, even when meeting participants are all in North America, according to researchers at the University of Toronto.
The (...)
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Censored Contagion : How Information on the Coronavirus is Managed on Chinese Social Media - The Citizen Lab - 8 mars 2020
The coronavirus disease, officially termed COVID-19 by the World Health Organization (WHO), is an epidemic that surfaced in Wuhan city, in central China’s Hubei province, in early December 2019. As of March 2, 2020, COVID-19 had reached 65 countries and infected over 88,000 people. The WHO has declared the virus a (...)
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Someone Tried to Hack My Phone. Technology Researchers Accused Saudi Arabia. - The New York Times - 12 février 2020
From a suspicious text message I received, technology researchers concluded that hackers working for Saudi Arabia had targeted my phone with powerful Israeli software.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — On June 21, 2018, I received an Arabic text message on my cellphone that read : “Ben Hubbard and the story of the Saudi royal (...)
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Stopping the Press : New York Times Journalist Targeted by Saudi-linked Pegasus Spyware Operator - The Citizen Lab - 5 février 2020
Key Findings
New York Times journalist Ben Hubbard was targeted with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware via a June 2018 SMS message promising details about “Ben Hubbard and the story of the Saudi Royal Family.”
The SMS contained a hyperlink to a website used by a Pegasus operator that we call KINGDOM. We have linked (...)
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NSO, l’espionnage tous azimuts - 1er novembre 2019
Selon Reuters, le logiciel Pegasus développé par la sulfureuse entreprise israélienne, dénoncé pour avoir servi à surveiller des militants des droits de l’homme et des opposants politiques, a aussi été utilisé pour cibler « de hauts responsables gouvernementaux » dans une vingtaine de pays.
La recension publique des états (...)
