Tag: Egypt
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Sandvine put on America’s export no-fly list after Egypt used network tech for spying
The US Commerce Department has blacklisted Sandvine for selling its networking monitoring technology to Egypt, where the Feds say the gear …
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Sandvine put on America’s export no-fly list for flogging snoop-ware to Egypt
The US Commerce Department has blacklisted Sandvine for selling its networking monitoring technology to Egypt, where the Feds say the gear …
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New Apple Zero-Days Exploited to Target Egyptian ex-MP with Predator Spyware
The three zero-day flaws addressed by Apple on September 21, 2023, were leveraged as part of an iPhone exploit chain in an attempt to …
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Zero-Day iOS Exploit Chain Infects Devices with Predator Spyware
Ahmed Eltantawy, a former Egyptian MP and presidential candidate, was targeted with Cytrox’s Predator spyware after announcing his bid …
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Facebook purges hundreds of fake accounts from state actors, marketers
In the first of what’s going to be monthly reports on its efforts to battle coordinated inauthentic behavior (CIB) leading up to the 2020 …
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SecureLink announces distribution partnership with ShiftLeft for GCC and Egypt
SecureLink, a risk advisory firm based in Dubai and part of the StarLink group, the region’s “True” Value-Added-Distributor (VAD), …
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Egypt government used Gmail third-party apps to phish activists
Members of Amnesty International say that Egyptian authorities are behind a recent wave of spear-phishing attacks that have targeted …
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Facebook is not equipped to stop the spread of authoritarianism
After the driver of a speeding bus ran over and killed two college students in Dhaka in July, student protesters took to the streets. They …
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Vigilante Hacks Government-Linked Cyberespionage Group
Somewhere, government-linked hackers might be panicking. A digital vigilante has struck back against what researchers believe is a …
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Android users hit by ZooPark malware stealing data & recording calls
The main targets of this campaign are users in the Middle East and North Africa (primarily Morocco, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, and Iran). …
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State Spy Programs, espionage & Monero Mining – fingers point at Sandvine
Perhaps, this is why internet users in Egypt, Turkey, and Syria were redirected to nation-wide distributed spyware when they attempted to …
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