The digital rights watchdog Citizen Lab has exposed a new spyware company that sells surveillance technology to governments.

On March 30 of this year, Bill Marczak woke up and checked his email. His eyes immediately spotted something suspicious in his inbox: a message about Ethiopia containing only a one line link written in comic sans font.

Marczak is a researcher at Citizen Lab, a group that studies how governments around the world use new technologies such as spyware against dissidents and activists. For years, Marczak and his colleagues have exposed several hacking attacks against people all over the world. This time, however, Marczak himself became the target.

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