Disinfo/cyber reporter @Haaretz @haaretzcom 📰 #TeamJorge #ProjectPegasus ■ Wikipedialogist ■ Covering knowledge in age of disinfo ■ Research fellow @lpiParis_
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SCOOP: We went undercover & discovered a secret disinformation-for-hire group called Team Jorge selling election interference, hack-and-leak & influence as a service. They claim to have meddled in 33 elections THREAD #TeamJorge @FredMetzo @GurMegiddo haaretz.com/israel-news/secu…
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SCOOP We got our hands on screen shots of an early prototype of Pegasus, called Syaphan and intended for use by the Israeli police
These photos are the closest we’ve gotten to seeing real working Pegasus system THREAD
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🚨SCOOP: My new @Haaretzcom investigation reveals new Israeli cyber companies developed technology that exploits the heart of the online economy - ads - not just for mass surveillance, but also to hack phones 👇
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New investigation w @gurmegiddo: Israel is running covert digital influence ops in Persian - including a campaign to reinstate the shah monarchy
This is based on our sources and research by social media analysis, including a new expose by @citizenlab
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SCOOP Meet Toka, an Israeli camera hacking firm set up by former PM Ehud Barak and the IDF’s ex-cyber chief. It sells only to intel bodies and law enforcement and allows them to “access” and “alter” camera feeds
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Netanyahu's cyber spyware diplomacy: Where Bibi goes, NSO's Pegasus soon began to operate >> @amitaiz @haaretzcom @FbdnStories #PegsusProject haaretz.com/israel-news/tech…
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tldr; Team Jorge are a 1-stop-shop of influence & psyops
Their business model: disinformation-as-a-service, or DaaS.
Their software: AIMS, an advanced system for creating and deploying fake accounts without detection
#TeamJorge @FredMetzo @GurMegiddo
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Tel Aviv this morning: police arresting Palestinians who entered Israel illegally to go to... the beach
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I've spent that last two weeks combing over the amazing work done by @amnesty's Security Lab & @citizenlab to put together this list of all the confirmed victims of the Pegasus. Did I miss anyone? DM me and we'll update the list @haaretzcom
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Paragon says it “offered both the Italian government & parliament a way to determine whether its system had been used against the journalist," but since "Italian authorities chose not to proceed with this solution, Paragon terminated its contracts"
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“Make the deal, it’s for Israel’s security”
Investigation reveals: Where Netanyahu traveled, NSO soon followed.
This is how Israel became the cyber industry’s patron and pushed spyware sales across the world - @amitaiz for #PegasusProject @haaretzcom
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BOOM: Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert was involved with cyber firm Intellexa and was even supposed to help pitch its cyber tools to Germany
Massive scoop by @danieldolev at @HashomrimOrg as part of the #PredatorFiles published by @EICnetwork
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כפי שאמר לי חוקר אמריקאי בהקשר לבחירות באמריקה: הרוח הקונספירטיבית יותר מכל קונספירציה ספציפית היא התנאי האפשרות של QAnon. עולם בו הכול אפשרי ואי אפשר להאמין לאף אחד הוא המטרה האמתית של סוכני דיסאינפורמציה. שם זה טראמפ/פוקס/OAN, וכאן זה ערוץ 20 וכו haaretz.co.il/magazine/.prem…
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A year ago I boarded a plan to Greece and began working on what would be the main focus of my spyware investigations since: A firm called Intellexa which offers the same type of spyware as NSO, but unlike NSO does not operate under Israeli oversight
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SCOOP: Together with @FakeReporter, researchers have uncovered, for the first time since the start of the war, an Israeli influence operation in English.
The targets: U.S. lawmakers & Hamas-UNRWA
Here's what we found: 👇
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This early prototype of a Pegasus-like system also allows remote recording - not just live interception of calls but actually turning the phone into a recording device
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Israel is in the midst of its own QatarGate.
Today we're revealing how the pro-Qatar campaign pitched by Perception, a firm run by 2 of Netanyhau's spin doctors, in 2021/22, actually played out online.
A thread on "Project Lighthouse" >>
@bar_peleg
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HAARETZ EXPOSÉ: How the pro-Qatar campaign conceived by Netanyahu aides worked / @bar_peleg & @omerbenj
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אז למה ויקיפדיה? כי המפתח למה שמוכנה truth decay - שחיקת מעמדה של האמת ברמה חברתית רחבה - היא פירוק שיטתי של מוסדות ידע כמו ויקיפדיה המבוססים על עובדות מבוססות. והאייטם הזה של ערוץ 20 הוא מתקפה לא רק על עובדה אחת ספציפית אלא על עובדתיות ברשת באופן כללי haaretz.co.il/magazine/.prem…
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זכיתי לתת לבר פלג יד קטנה בסיפור הענק שהוא חושף כבר חצי שנה ומרעיד את המדינה - ובצדק
תחקיר ״הארץ״: עשרות נכסים, ציוצים וטשטוש עקבות: כך פעל הקמפיין שמקורבי נתניהו הגו לשיפור תדמיתה של קטאר
חשיפה של @omerbenj ושלי: ניתוח רשת מכוון אל שני אתרים וכעשרים חשבונות רשת עלומים, שפעלו לשיפור תדמיתה של קטאר לקראת המונדיאל, ואף לאחר מכן, ובכלל זה בעת המלחמה בעזה. המסמכים משנת 2022 שהגיעו לידי "הארץ", חושפים את המסרים שהתוו יונתן אוריך ושרוליק איינהורן לטובת הקמפיין להלבנת שמה של קטאר, וכוללים ראיות דיגיטליות שמובילות ישירות אל השניים ואל עובדים נוספים בחברה של איינהורן שבנתה את הקמפיין. המסמכים, שהופיעו ברשת במשך שלוש שנים, נמחקו בשבועות האחרונים, סמוך לחשיפות האחרונות על הקשר בין קטאר לגורמים בלשכת נתניהו.
מסמכי הרשת מקושרים ישירות לתיבות האימייל האישיות של השניים, ואפשר לראות את כל היסטוריית העריכה של הקבצים. באחד המסמכים היה קישור לסרטון בעמוד היוטיוב הפרטי של איינהורן. מיד לאחר פניית "הארץ" לחברה, ערב חשיפת מעורבותה בקמפיין לטובת קטאר בחודש נובמבר, נמחק הסרטון מעמודו. בגרסה הראשונית של מסמך אחר העוסק בקטאר, נראים עיקרי הקמפיין לשיפור תדמיתו של נשיא סרביה אלכסנדר וויצ'יץ' – שאיינהורן ייעץ לו.
בתגובה על חשיפת "הארץ" מסרו עו"ד עמית חדד ועו"ד נועה מילשטיין בשם יונתן אוריך: "לא היה ולא נברא. מדובר בעוד ניסיון פלילי לזהם בשקרים חקירה פיקטיבית שחוסה תחת צו איסור פרסום של בית המשפט". מחברת "פרספשן" נמסר: "לא משנה כמה פעמים תכתבו את זה - חברת 'פרספשן' מעולם לא עבדה עם ממשלת קטאר. לא ב-2022, ולא אחרי. גם השקר הזה יקרוס בסוף". מחברת "קויוס" לא נמסרה תגובה. לאחר פניית "הארץ" בנובמבר אל טקאץ'־דריזין, היא מסרה בשם "קויוס": "זה לא תחום הפעילות שלנו, אין ולא היתה התקשרות בין החברות ו'קויוס' לא עוסקת בנושא".
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SCOOP PART 2: After discovering #TeamJorge, we (@GurMegiddo @FredMetzo) went undercover AGAIN and had a series of meetings with a firm that likes to pretend that its the quote/unquote ""legitimate"" side of the disinformation-for-hire market
Meet Percepto
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As one source told me: “Israel is the ONLY country in the world that export regulations don’t apply to. Offensive cyber firms can sell Israel anything and everything, not just tech but also services”
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The spyware also allows operators - in this case, potentially Israeli police officers - to remotely turn on a phone’s camera
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They bear all the hallmarks of what we’d expect from a mobile tactical interception system: for example access to call logs and messages - including those from encrypted apps like WhatsApp
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These are screen shots of the program and the police planned to present them to the government. They showcase the spyware program’s capabilities
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התשובה ברורה: כי אף אחד לא יבדוק או שהכתב עצלן מדי, או גם וגם, והמטרה תמיד הייתה לחזור שוב ושוב על הטענות שיש מי שפועל להסתיר מהציבור את האמת לגבי נתניהו
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לפעמים סלפי בודד של עובד אחד ממטוס פרטי זה קצה חוט מספיק להרים תחקיר חוצה גבולות על סחר בינלאומי בנשק דיגיטלי @avischarf @cr0ft0n @LHreports @telloglou @e_triantafillou
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A private eye got a demo and for a week had access to a program that allows you collect data, at scale, and track, even in a targeted manner, mobile phones
The materials were then shared with @404mediaco @NOTUSreports @briankrebs @josephfcox @ByronTau
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עזבו שנייה את השאלה למה זה שווה אייטם (זה לא, תאמינו לי ככתב לענייני ויקיפדיה שהשחתות שנמחקות תוך דק הם אירוע יומיומי). למה לשקר? למה שקר שכל כך קל לבדוק ולהפריך? (*8* *פאקינג* *דק*)
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סקופון: הFBI התבקש לחקור לפחות 2 מקרים של גנבת זהות בעקבות תחקיר של @fakereporter1 שחשף שאלמונים השתמשו בחשבונות טוויטר שנחזו לכאלה השייכים לאנשים מוכרים בקהילה היהודית בארה"ב - בניסיון לאסוף מידע על פעילים במחאה נגד נתניהו >> @Haaretz haaretz.co.il/news/law/.prem…
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The spyware also traces its targets movements and all these different pieces of information are brought together in this simple to use program
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Barcelona has become the cyber offensive capital of EU, and at least three teams of Israeli hackers have relocated to the Catalonian capital in the past year and a half, the latest of them in recent months, leaving Singapore to set up a new type of firm >
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סגל משקר - ״מי שיפתח את הערך היום לא יראה את הפרטים האלה, נכון?״ - ושואל את הכתב, שעונה ״נכון״... למרות שלפני פחות מדקה אותו כתב נלהב אמר שהעריכה נעשתה לפני חודש, הוא לא מתקן את השקר ואומר ״נכון״... כמובן הוא לא ציין שזה היה *באוויר 8 דק*
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שרשור מלא על התחקיר שהתפרסם הבוקר ב @Haaretz בעקבות עבודת הקודש של @FakeReporter
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הכל! (כמעט) על הרשת הזרה שחיה בתוכנו כבר שנתיים:
תחקיר שלנו עם @omerbenj מראה כיצד הצליחה לחדור למחאה למען השבת החטופים, שלחה אזרחים למשימות ואספה מודיעין.
איך תדעו אם נפלתם ברשת, מה הקשר לרב הראשי לשעבר, ואיך הכל התחיל מיאיר נתניהו? מתחילים🧵 >>
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השקר של ערוץ 20: נטען כי ״מי שיכנס לויקיפדיה היום״ לא ידע את האמת על ליאת בן ארי כי מישהו מחק מהערך שלה פרטים חשובים. אבל העריכה המדוברת הייתי באוויר במשך *8 דק* לפני *3 שבועות*
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איך ישראל אישרה למכור למדינה לא דמוקרטית טכנולוגיה סודית ו"מטורפת" של פריצה לטלפונים ומחשבים - ואז נבהלה.
״כל שצריך זה פאשלה אחת של לקוח, מקרה אחד של ניצול לרעה כדי שהיכולת כולה תישרף לגמרי"
חשיפה שלי ושל דסק "השירות החשאי", היום בבוקר על שער מוסף הארץ
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The long story: @FbdnStories follows up on the work of journalists that are threatened or killed. They decided to bring together reporters from across the world to investigate the shady disinformation-for-hire industry
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BREAKING: Spyware firm Paragon has cut off Italy, where it has two clients, from its spyware effective immediately, after the Italian gov't failed to address claims it spied on journalists and activists critical of far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni
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Sources I spoke to me say the current version of Pegasus does not look EXACTLY like this but is extremely similar in terms of its menus, functions and interface style (though the colors are different now)
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tldr; Over 6 secretly recorded meetings, they pitched their DaaS tech, boasted about past activities. For 6+ months 100+ reporters investigated their claims @Damien_Leloup @flornrnd @Kzalan @HoffHeiner @christo_buschek @romanlehberger @m_hoppenstedt @skirchy to name a few
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In first, Israeli citizen found to have been infected by Pegasus twice in the past two years. Unclear why the man, who is active in the protests against Netanyhu, was targeted and by who. Forensics by @JamfSoftware @ZecOps @citizenlab
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We always hear about Pegasus in OTHER countries - be it Spain or the UAE - but one thing people forget is that Israel is also a client
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🚨This is surveillance capitalism at its finest! The world of "digital arms" has evolved, moving into the realm of ad-based intelligence (AdInt). This is how this next-gen digital weapon leaked into the private cyber arms sector >>
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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/tech…
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SCOOP with @DrWhax
- Israel killed Morocco's access to Pegasus - but also failed to okay its deal with QuaDream
- Leaked code reveals their spyware and show it may have abused WhatsApp
- Sources: Firm also developed “terrifying” new spyware
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Over the course of Zoom meetings, Team Jorge pitched their bundle of services. First, you collect “active intelligence on your targets” - this includes hacking into email and messaging accounts. These can later be leaked. #TeamJorge @FredMetzo @GurMegiddo
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The whole world is watching. But Israel - and Gaza - are blurry.
@ausland2 and I set out to find out why?
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Hi-res images of Pyongyang are on Google Earth, but not Tel Aviv or Gaza. Here’s why
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After meeting in Paris, @GurMegiddo had an idea: We should pose as potential clients & try to get a meeting w these firms. Get them to pitch themselves @FredMetzo #teamjorge
No morals, no qualms, no borders: From a small office building , a group of Israelis is spreading global disruption, boasting of election intereference, hacking and manipulation
investigation by @GurMegiddo @omerbenj @FredMetzo Haaretz/RadioFrance
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Some were playing out in front of our very eyes. We were shown the live Telegram account of a senior Kenyan official, now a serving minister. Jorge showed us how he could send messages from his target’s phone.
#TeamJorge @FredMetzo @GurMegiddo
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Italian journalist Francesco Cancellato wrote investigative pieces on Italy's ruling party's ties to far-right and neo-fascist movements. After his phone was hacked using an Israeli software, he says he is worried for democracy both in Italy and abroad haaretz.com/israel-news/secu….
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Wikipedia’s community standards have created the conditions for a shared reality - meanwhile, Facebook is a black box >> My oped for @WiredUK wired.co.uk/article/wikipedi…
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The project, if anyone was crazy enough to take it on: Postpone an election in an African country without any reason.
And the disinfo industry said: HOLD MY BEER
#TeamJorge @FredMetzo @GurMegiddo
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אחרי שנים שקהלת פועלים בויקיפדיה בשלל דרכים - כולל הפעלה של עורכים בתשלום - נחשף שעובד בקהלת הפעיל גם חשבונות מזויפים. קהלת טוענים שזה נעשה ללא ידיעתם וללא אישור מצידם. מדובר בפרשה חמורה מאוד והפרה חמורה של חוקי הקהילה - ויש מי שדורש לחסום את הפורום haaretz.co.il/news/security/…
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Sometimes all it takes is one selfie on a private jet by a single employee to launch a cross-border investigation into the dark side of the digital arms market @avischarf @LHreports @cr0ft0n @daniel_howden @e_triantafillou @telloglou >> haaretz.com/israel-news/secu…
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“Philosophy is a battle against bewitchment of our intelligence by language,”
excellent piece by @AuerbachKeller
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Mysterious hacker groups are knocking out critical infrastructure in Iran, leaking secret info about the IRGC, hijacking TV broadcasts and trying to foment uprising against Tehran.
Cyber revenge for October 7 seems to have begun >>
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A pro-Israel AI bot designed to counter misinformation is spreading false claims instead—denying Oct. 7 attacks, contradicting Israeli policies, and even amplifying anti-Israel narratives. A case study into AI-driven misinformation by @FakeReporter 🧵👇
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Pro-Israel bot goes rogue, calls IDF soldiers 'white colonizers in apartheid Israel'
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.@FredMetzo played a mild-mannered French consultant
I played the neurotic American
@GurMegiddo the ex-Israeli
More calls were made. After one key introduction, we were told to call Jorge.
You might be wondering: Who are they?
#StoryKillers reveals the identity of Jorge, whose real name is Tal Hanan, a former Israeli special forces officer who surrounds himself with former Israeli intelligence officers and spin doctors.
He denied "any wrong doing".
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Sources linked us to middlemen, mediators put us in touch with door openers. None seem bothered by the fact we wanted to have a democratic election called of for no reason
#TeamJorge @FredMetzo @GurMegiddo
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CLEARED FOR PUBLICATION: #ProjectPegasus reveals massive list of potential targets of Israeli spyware NSO, including Modi’s biggest rival Rahul Gandhi and even (an old number belonging to) Pakistani leader Imran Khan >> @FbdnStories @amitaiz @haaretzcom haaretz.com/israel-news/tech…
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This is one of the most concerning disinformation narratives to emerge this past 12 days.
My last report, based on @FakeReporter’s amazing work, explains its origin and how it’s getting help from the far right and conspiracy theorist across the globe
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The conspiracy alleging that Israel or someone inside Israel has helped Hamas massacre citizens continues to circulate.
This bogus allegations for example has gained 5.4M Views(!). It is based on a Rabbi that "knows confidential sources" and is utterly nonsense.
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After a week of shock, I finally managed to do some reporting: as Hamas commandos were crossing the boarder into Israel, a digital offensive was also launched
Alongside Hamas propaganda bots, disinfo about the war being an “inside job” or an “IDF betrayal” were rampant
Musk’s X and Hamas’ digital offensive: Gaza is a perfect storm of disinformation haaretz.com/israel-news/secu…
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🏁There's a digital arms race taking place over the last 5 years to use ads not just for geolocation - but also as a cyber weapon >>
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What happens in Cyprus does not stay in Cyprus.. Israeli cyber firm attempting to avoid oversight sets up shop in Cyprus, then Athens and now the Greece spy chief & top aide to PM quit after journalist @nasoskook and head of Greek opposition hacked haaretz.com/israel-news/secu…
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Cybersecurity industry sources tell me that the cyber attack on Israeli .gov websites was a big distributed denial of service (#DDos) attack and that it *may* be a state op, **maybe** even an Iranian one, but not Ukraine related haaretz.com/israel-news/.pre….
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Admit that you had no idea that most of the Mideast is more liberal than Alabama on abortions - super proud of this project by @NogaMalkin haaretz.com/us-news/.premium…
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Israel is collecting evidence digital & physical for a war crimes case against Hamas
OSINT/SOCMINT firms helped set up "The Library" based on video from Hamas terrorists' GoPro cams, social media accounts & other online sources
@ran_shimoni @chenmaanit7
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Now it’s personal: US slaps personal sanctions on rouge Israeli intel spyware firm and its founder. News shows that though initially concerned with Israeli firms like NSO and Candiru, the WH is now more concerned by unregulated Israelis operating abroad haaretz.com/israel-news/secu….
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🌐 Who's behind Insanet? A group of seasoned cyber entrepreneurs with strong Israeli intelligence ties and young innovators with a dual background in military cyber units and the ad industry >>
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How Israeli spy tech, specifically NSO's Pegasus, is used across the world to hunt journalists, activists and even leading politicians from India to Saudi Arabia
THREAD on the #PegasusProject #ProjectPegasus investigation by @FbdnStories & @amnesty
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I love #FARA! Digging there I discovered Marc Zell, head of the GOP in Israel, is registered as a foreign lobbyist for Republika Srpska
His mission: getting sanctions on its president Milorad Dodik lifted. Dodik was just in Israel & is wanted by Interpol haaretz.com/israel-news/secu…
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Jorge and his team - aka #TeamJorge - we would soon learn have a lot of experience in election interference - and no lack of ideas @FredMetzo @GurMegiddo
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Pahlavi is the son of Iran’s last shah, ousted in 1979.
He visited Israel in 2023, welcomed by then-intel minister Gila Gamliel.
He speaks of democracy & human rights — but online, his image was boosted by networks that looked Iranian, but weren’t haaretz.com/israel-news/secu…
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🚨 The age of AI-driven disinfo and information warfare is upon us 🚨
Kremlin-run Doppelganger campaign is back, @antibot4navalny & others find: 20k+ of AI-written posts pushed out by 6k+ automatic accounts, alongside fake websites & deep fake video >>
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The first network was exposed in part by @bar_peleg a few months ago. We confirmed it included hundreds of fake Persian accounts, posing as everyday Iranians.
They pushed hashtags like #KingRezaPahlavi, shared his speeches, and amplified posts by Gamliel
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NSO also tried to get into the game and developed a yet-reported product called Truman to try to take the lead in developing an offensive AdInt market. But the twist? They never got to launch it >>
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Sources say the #BlastDoor exploit identified by @citizenlab was developed by NSO hackers, but the infection chain or at least parts of it are also used by other Israeli spyware firm that will now struggle to continue to provide coverage for clients
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🖥️Their product - "Sherlock." This tool exploited ads to infiltrate devices - peak of surveillance capitalism. It has the power to breach Windows, iPhones, AND Androids. A universal hacking tool >>
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My latest study is out! How did Wikipedia fend off COVID-19 disinformation? Our biblometric study reveals a key aspect that helps explain why Wikipedia did so much better than Facebook and Twitter @JonathanSobel1 @rona_av @GigaScience @WikiResearch @CriResearch @Wikimedia
#CitationNeeded? #Wikipedia bibliometrics during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. New from @jonathansobel1 studying how wikpedians fended off #COVID19 disinformation during the start of the pandemic doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/…
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“If NSO could be said to be an actor with problematic ethics, at least everything it did was legal and cleared with the Israeli state. This is something different and much more severe" - my investigation into #Intellexa an Israeli owned cyber intel firm
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🌐 Enter Insanet: Not just a catchy name, but a nod to the insanity of their tech. Founded in 2019, they're the only firm to every legally sell an offensive AdInt technology >>
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🛑 It's new era of digital warfare and the lines between ads, tech, and espionage blur. As technology continues to advance, the need for well-governed ethical use and strict regulations becomes paramount
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Indonesia has no diplomatic ties w Israel. But an investigation lead by @AmnestyTech reveals Israeli firms selling spy tech were working in Indonesia from about 2018 if not '17 @tempo_english @lolonaeg @wavkollektiv @wochenzeitung @DrWhax
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The fact that Israelis were involved in any pro-Qatar nonsense is in itself shameful, the fact they did so before, during and after Oct 7 is something else
Israel's hasbara aparatus spent millions railing against Qatar's US campus influence... well :(
Israel is in the midst of its own QatarGate.
Today we're revealing how the pro-Qatar campaign pitched by Perception, a firm run by 2 of Netanyhau's spin doctors, in 2021/22, actually played out online.
A thread on "Project Lighthouse" >>
@bar_peleg
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In 2019, Wikipedia cracked down on disinformation like never before - and pro-Trump web sites were the first to go haaretz.com/us-news/.premium…
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Wikipedia is dealing masterfully with the #coronavirus infodemic. The crisis has led the community & even the @Wikimedia Foundation to acknowledge @Wikipedia's role as the public’s main source of medical & health information today
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💰The price tag for such a vector? An eye-watering 6 million euros for a single infection. If Pegasus is considered the nuclear bomb of digital arms, Sherlock is the warhead >>
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The pro-Israel AI-driven website that linked Helyeh Doutaghi, a pro-Palestinian Yale professor, to alleged terror orgs was recently exposed in @Haaretz by @FakeReporter & myself haaretz.com/israel-news/secu…
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As a teen who just moved to Israel and knew no Hebrew, I read him fanatically
As an adult, I had the honor of working with him
Today, @bradleyburston writes his last column for @haaretzcom
His wise words, unique style & boundless optimism will be missed haaretz.com/opinion/.premium…
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אחרי שהסתבכו עם האפליקציה הכי מוצפנת בעולם, החברה הישראלית סלברייט (שעוזרת למשטרות לפרוץ לטלפונים של חשודים/עצורים) על המוקד ובארץ ובחו״ל דורשים מהמשטרות: תפסיקו להשתמש בטכנולוגיה הזאת. שבוע שעבר נחשף כי ניתן לפרוץ לתוכנה של סלברייט, מה שעלול להטיל בספק בראיות שהיא אוספת @oyoyoy
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🎯Insanet managed to legally navigate these turbulent waters, selling a product that many deemed... well, insane!
Bombshell new report today from Haaretz (@omerbenj) about the spyware industry’s continued efforts to subvert our collective cyber-security, now by turning already invasive ad networks into spyware infection vectors.
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The Israeli phone-hacking firm Cellebrite claimed it can break into Signal - the world’s most encrypted app.
Yesterday Signal’s founder @moxie got his revenge and revealed he hacked the hackers and found some serious flaw #THREAD
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The head of Greece’s socialist party was targeted by the #predator spyware, made by #cytrox, which is owned by #Intellexa. He’s the second EU national targeted by the spyware; the first being journalist @nasoskook haaretz.com/israel-news/tech….
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Though there is no case or claim or any wrongdoing or misuse, Toka’s tech - once the stuff of science fiction or movies - raises important political, legal and ethical questions “These are unimaginable capabilities. This is a dystopian technology from a human rights perspective”
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This network was funded indirectly by Israel and done through a subcontractor. Though set up for geopolitical ends, it also helped amplify the Israeli minister and her calls for regime change in Iran, and praise Netanyahu
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A short thread on Pegasus, the Israeli occupation and how we define terror in wake of this AMAZING Guardian scoop about the CIA calling BS on Israel's claim that Palestinian rights orgs are terror groups- a claim based on intel collected by hacking phones
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Watching a #Qanon supporter on the Senate dais, with no plan, no shirt & a bewildered look on his face, reminded me of what Prof. @YBenkler said ahead of the elex: Russian propaganda aims “to create a world where nothing is true and everything is possible” haaretz.com/us-news/.premium…
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🌍 The global implications? Israeli firms developed tech that was meant to counter terrorism, but as they are sold to nations with questionable track records, they are frequently abused and turned on journalists and human rights defenders >>
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