Tomorrow is my last day at Amnesty International's Security Lab. I left to do my own thing. More on that soon!! For now i'm going on a sabbatical for a couple months.
Scoop: Central Command is getting reports that military personnel are being targeted using commercially available location data. Few details available, but it’s a sign that the tech industry’s advertising-surveillance complex is having consequences on the battlefield.
www.reuters.com/business/med...
@interseclab.bsky.social published new research and looking at the supply chain based on the Geedge Networks leak.
MADLink - A Taiwanese Vestige in the Geedge Supply Chain.
interseclab.org/research/mad...
Spoke to Wired Greece about Predator and their new infection vector through online advertisement, Aladdin: wired.com.gr/article/i-an...
It's an illustration of how the global surveillance economy is shaping the battlefield.
Following our April 29 announcement, we believe it's important to be transparent about the context that led to the decision. We want to explain, where we can, why this was made on such short notice, only days before we were set to host RightsCon.
Read: www.rightscon.org/rc26-stateme...
Raphael Satter
“🇬🇷Greek newspaper @tovimagr.bsky.social has reported that a previously undisclosed memorandum of cooperation was signed between a consortium involving the spyware-linked company Intellexa and a technology unit of Greece’s National Intelligence Service.”
www.dnews.gr/eidhseis/new...
Intellexa had a secret US partner with government ties that fed it Android and iOS exploits on a revenue sharing scheme 🫥
via @jurrevanbergen.nl
www.antenna.gr/ereynes/arti...
The Chinese Government Just Got the World’s Largest Digital Rights Conference Canceled www.wired.com/story/the-ch...
NEW: Researchers have have exposed yet another spyware maker that develops fake Android apps for its government customers. The apps were pushed with help of telecom providers.
And it's yet another Italian company: IPS, which until now was only known to make traditional wiretapping systems.
Our official statement to the digital rights community about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia
Researchers have found a new case where government authorities used a fake Android app to plant spyware on a target’s phone. The company that allegedly developed the spyware was not previously known t...
Vor drei Jahren hat die Staatsanwaltschaft vier Manager von FinFisher angeklagt. Die Ermittler werfen dem Münchener Unternehmen vor, ihren Staatstrojaner ohne Genehmigung an die Türkei verkauft zu haben. Seitdem ist nichts passiert. Das Gericht prüft und prüft. netzpolitik.org/2023/unsere-...
Catalin Cimpanu
Vas Panagiotopoulos
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Access Now
Andre Meister
wired.com.gr
Η υπόθεση του Predator ήρθε ξανά στο προσκήνιο με την απόρριψη αιτήματος για ανάσυρση της δικογραφίας. Παράλληλα, προκύπτουν νέοι, πιο ύπουλοι τρόποι μόλυνσης.
New findings expose a Taiwanese vestige in Geedge Networks' supply chain: 1,708 ADLINK units enabling state-level surveillance systems exported to authoritarian governments.
