Notices by John Scott-Railton ☕ (jsrailton@mastodon.social)

IMPORTANT: has #Apple recently sent you a #MercenarySpyware threat notification?

This is serious. Seek expert help.

If you're a journalist, activist, dissident, academic, etc. etc:

✅contact the Access Now Digital Security Helpline.

https://www.accessnow.org/help/

#Apple #Spyware #malware #infosec #cybersecurity #humanrights #security #privacy

NEW: notorious #spyware firm #NSO Group, maker of #Pegasus has spent millions on foreign agents & lobbying operations in the US.

Their most recent target? The #law... via the American Bar Association.

THREAD 1/

By @opensecrets https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2023/05/spyware-firm-nso-group-continues-lobbying-efforts-to-resume-business-as-usual-in-the-u-s

Impersonation on #Twitter is out of control.

I count over 140 fakes of just one user: Alex Gladstein of the Human Rights Foundation.

The fakes block Alex so he can't see them when he searches for himself.

#spam #bots #cybersecurity #humanrights #bitcoin

2/ This is Mexican Journalist & editor Fredid Román Román.

He was assassinated last August.

Hours before the murder, his phone was pinged & poinpointed using a loophole in the global #telecom system (commonly called #SS7).

So, who was tracking him? And who was helping them?

NEW: Assange ally who once processed payments for #WikiLeaks now masterminds a global phone #surveillance system.

A new report says Andreas Fink (he's apparently on Mastodon: @afink ) helps shady actors & governments track phones, intercept texts & compromise accounts.

From assassinated Mexican journalists to Fink personally helping African security services pinpoint a critic using #SS7 it gets much, much worse

THREAD 1/

Story:
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2023-05-10/ty-article-magazine/.premium/global-surveillance-the-secretive-swiss-dealer-enabling-israeli-spy-firms/00000188-0005-dc7e-a3fe-22cdf2900000

NEW: journalist investigating official corruption in 🇩🇴#DominicanRepublic infected with #Pegasus #spyware

Nuria Piera's cases included relatives of ex-president.

Research by #AmnestyTech

Independently validated by us
@citizenlab

Link: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/05/dominican-republic-pegasus-spyware-journalists-phone/

2/ Apparently #tiktok was running a leak investigation.

So they pulled location logs from multiple reporters.

And those connected to them.

To try to see if their movements intersected with employees.

3/ This story came out in several places, resulting in different counts.

Pulling them together #tiktok had covert #surveillance targets at:

-Financial Times
-Buzzfeed
-Forbes

And some of their personal social graphs(?)

BREAKING: #tiktok admits to spying on multiple journalists.

And people connected to them.

Tracked their locations.

Some thoughts in aTHREAD 1/

https://www.ft.com/content/e873b98a-9623-45b3-b97c-444a2fde5874

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