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https://citizenlab.org/2016/08/million-dollar-dissident-ipho...

  > Alarmingly, some of the names suggested a willingness on
  > the part of the operators to impersonate governments and
  > international organizations. For example, we found two
  > domain names that appear intended to masquerade as an
  > official site of the International Committee of the Red
  > Cross (ICRC):  icrcworld.com and redcrossworld.com.

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This is a much more informative source. Moderators may want to merge everything into this story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12360714

Edit: that story is now flagged as dupe, can we at least get the URL changed to this much more in-depth article? https://citizenlab.org/2016/08/million-dollar-dissident-ipho...

That is a MUCH more detailed article. Thanks for sharing.

Yes. Done.

Thanks!

  > That a country would expend millions of dollars, and
  > contract with one of the world’s most sophisticated cyber
  > warfare units, to get inside the device of a single human
  > rights defender is a shocking illustration of the serious
  > nature of the problems affecting civil society in
  > cyberspace.  This report should serve as a wake-up call
  > that the silent epidemic of targeted digital attacks
  > against civil society is a very real and escalating
  > crisis of democracy and human rights.

https://deibert.citizenlab.org/2016/08/disarming-a-cyber-mer...

Money quote for me from that link:

    That the companies whose spyware was used to 
    target Mansoor are all owned and operated from 
    democracies speaks volumes about the lack of 
    accountability and effective regulation in the 
    cross-border commercial spyware trade.
    
    While these spyware tools are developed in 
    democracies, they continue to be sold to 
    countries with notorious records of abusive
    targeting of human rights defenders. Such 
    sales occur despite the existence of 
    applicable export controls.

Be very very glad citizenlab exists in the world. They're doing good work against very strong, very well funded adversaries.

Ok, since most people seem to agree that that URL is the best source, we've changed to it from https://blog.lookout.com/blog/2016/08/25/trident-pegasus/. Thanks.

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