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NEW REPORT🔎 In collaboration with @ICIJorg, we identified two distinct actors aligned with the People’s Republic of China that have been targeting and impersonating journalists and civil society.
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The Citizen Lab
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The Citizen Lab
@citizenlab
Academic research unit at @UofT investigating novel threats to democracy, human rights, and global security in the digital ecosystem.
- NEW REPORT CatalanGate: Extensive Mercenary Spyware Operation against Catalans Using Pegasus and Candiru
- 🚨 WE URGE ALL USERS TO UPDATE THEIR KEYBOARD APPS IMMEDIATELY 🚨 🆕 New @citizenlab report finds vulnerabilities in the security of cloud-based #pinyin #keyboard apps from vendors Baidu, Honor, iFlytek, OPPO, Samsung, Tencent, Vivo, and Xiaomi that could be exploited to reveal
- NEW REPORT: Censored Contagion: How Information on the Coronavirus is Managed on Chinese Social Media
- 🚨🚨 BIG : WE URGE ALL USERS TO UPDATE THEIR #Apple devices urgently. @citizenlab in coordination with @Google’s TAG team found that former Egyptian MP Ahmed Eltantawy was targeted with Cytrox’s #Predator #spyware through links sent via SMS and WhatsApp.
- WhatsApp has just pushed out updates to close a vulnerability. We believe an attacker tried (and was blocked by WhatsApp) to exploit it as recently as yesterday to target a human rights lawyer. Now is a great time to update your WhatsApp softwareWhatsApp has announced that it discovered attackers were able to install surveillance software on to both iPhones and Android phones by ringing up targets using the app’s call function. The app is used by 1.5bn people worldwide. on.ft.com/2VAo02o
- NEW REPORT FORCEDENTRY: NSO Group iMessage Zero-Click Exploit captured in the Wild
- NEW REPORT: Discovery of an extensive espionage campaign in Thailand 🇹🇭 involving the abuse of NSO Group’s #Pegasus spyware In collaboration with @iLawFX and @DigitalReachSEA
- 💬NEW REPORT: The Citizen Lab takes a deep dive into the network encryption protocol used by #WeChat, an app with over one billion users. The app uses a custom #encryption protocol called “MMTLS” that introduces cryptographic weaknesses. Read the report:
- Replying to @citizenlabThe Citizen Lab, in collaboration with Catalan civil society groups, has identified at least 65 individuals targeted or infected with mercenary spyware.
- NEW REPORT: Move Fast & Roll Your Own Crypto: A Quick Look at the Confidentiality of Zoom Meetings
- NEW REPORT Project Torogoz: Extensive Hacking of Media & Civil Society in El Salvador with Pegasus Spyware
- NEW REPORT Pegasus vs. Predator: Dissident’s Doubly-Infected iPhone Reveals Cytrox Mercenary Spyware
