Report says Israeli spyware was used in Trinidad and Tobago to spy on lawmakers, journalists and judges.
However, it may not be NSO but a different Israeli spyware – one recently found on the phone of a Greek journalist >> THREAD haaretz.com/israel-news/te…
However, it may not be NSO but a different Israeli spyware – one recently found on the phone of a Greek journalist >> THREAD haaretz.com/israel-news/te…
My sources suggest that the spyware that may have been purchased by the Caribbean state is called #Predator and it is created by a different Israeli spyware firm called #Cytrox haaretz.com/israel-news/te…
Why them and not NSO? In 2018, a Haaretz investigation by @HShezaf & @JonathanJacobso revealed that Israeli companies had sold espionage and intelligence-gathering software to a number of countries in the past - and Trinidad and Tobago was among them haaretz.com/israel-news/.p…
In 2021, Citizen Lab (@citizenlab) found the spyware on the phones of two Egyptian nationals - alongside Pegasus. Two of the links sent to the victims to infect their phones were from... Trinidad & Tobago
citizenlab.ca/2021/12/pegasu…
citizenlab.ca/2021/12/pegasu…
This week the third case of a #Cytrox #Predator infection was reported in Greece: The phone of journalist Thanasis Koukakis was found infected with Predator from July 12 to September 24, 2021 insidestory.gr/article/poios-…
While all these do not mean Cytrox is doing or did business in the Caribbean islands, they do raise the possibility. My full report here >> haaretz.com/israel-news/te…
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