By Bill Marczak, Geoffrey Alexander, Sarah McKune, John Scott-Railton, and Ron Deibert Key Findings This report describes how Ethiopian dissidents in the US, UK, and other countries were targeted with emails containing sophisticated commercial spyware posing as Adobe Flash updates and PDF plugins. Targets include a US-based Ethiopian diaspora media outlet, the Oromia Media Network (OMN), a PhD student, and…
The Intercept BY CORA CURRIER AND MORGAN MARQUIS-BOIRE @coracurrier@headhntr When Apple and Google unveiled new encryption schemes last month, law enforcement officialscomplained that they wouldn’t be able to unlock evidence on criminals’ digital devices. What they didn’t say is that there are already methods to bypass encryption, thanks to off-the-shelf digital implants readily available to…
New research finds the surveillance spyware is spreading but may be used to spy on activists By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service March 13, 2013 FINFISHER_INTRODUCTION IDG News Service – New research suggests a controversial spyware suite called FinFisher is being used to track activists in more countries than previously thought, including Vietnam and Ethiopia. FinFisher,…