“The allegations made by recent press reports claiming that the UAE is amongst a number of countries accused of alleged surveillance targetting of journalists and individuals have no evidentiary basis and are categorically false.” Except...evidence. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
The UAE and we should specifically Kung Fu Tahnoon's gang, hires contractors who use foreign nations to do their dirty work. It's not just Pegasus, but Russian tool kits and mods. They send written notices for hacks via L6 which is kinda stupid once you collect them.
There's an office in Uganda does some of the hacks sometimes going through cel service provider. There are also malware sites like Stryker that can load code. There was also a hacking team in Benghazi in June 2019 that showed off their stuff to the arriving mercs. It's pervasive.
The only guardrail is the high end no knock phone hack which can run around $200k but getting cheaper. @Calcalistech has been following bad actors for years. @citizenlab has also been at the forefront of exposing the abuse of military technology calcalistech.com/ctech/articles…
More attention should be paid to the Exploitation part of the hack. Is it used to murder someone, harass them, spoof them or just collect intel. This is where Information Operations skill sets come in to play. tnsr.org/2020/08/the-si…
For example the Wiener hack and the Biden hack are good mixes of false information, spoofing, hacking, loading content and exploitation. And yes you need a gullible media for it all to work. dangerousmagazine.com/2018/07/19/hac…
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