So this turned out to be an IRGC domestic counterintelligence op, as detailed by Google's report today: cloud.google.com/blog/topics/th…

Join the Citizen Lab & Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity for a panel on the #cybersecurity threats faced by transnational advocacy groups in the US that are targeted by state and state-related actors. Moderated by profdeibert, this discussion will feature Citizen Lab researchers 🅽oura 🅰ljizawi,

What would it take to ensure citizens can be confident their govt wouldn't abuse spyware? Institutional safeguards (checks & balances), oversight & independent investigations into past abuses All of which are absent in Greece 🇬🇷 Eliza Triantafillou inside story. 🔽 w more...

Never underestimate incompetence...

#Brazil has started to block X. As OONI measurements show, not all telco providers have implemented the blocking order so far. #Brazil_X

Are you interested in facts over speculation & hyperbole in the Brazil 🇧🇷 / X case? Check out this resource from Columbia Global Freedom of Expression 👇 (includes official court docs in Portuguese). h/t Adam Molnar globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/cases/federal-…

An important part of Trump's playbook: extensive foreign corruption 👇

People often ask me what most worries me about the future of the internet... Here's a big one!!

The U.S. has been the global leader of governments trying to stop the proliferation of high-end spyware from the likes of NSO. But a new study shows it hasn't been very effective. My exclusive report in the Post is archived without marketing stuff here: archive.ph/C0ovi

Spyware vendors like #Intellexa manage to escape US sanctions 👇 (in Europe they didn’t even face sanctions, they got tax breaks and government contracts instead). They can operate and provide their anti-democracy technology with impunity. Any reply from European Commission? …

A very useful overview ⬇️ of the judicial upheaval in Mexico 🇲🇽

Terry Pender And then in 2023, Sandvine's DPI used to redirect hijack an Egyptian opposition politician's network traffic to implant Predator spyware (Working w Google's Threat Analysis Group, we also captured the Apple Zero Day exploit used to implant the spyware) citizenlab.ca/2023/09/predat…

Highly recommended!