New Spyware Used to Target Journalists Identified

Canadian information research group Citizen Lab has identified another player in the global spyware market, Israeli-based surveillance software company Candiru. This firm sells its product exclusively to governments, marketing its "untraceable" technology as reportedly capable of secretly tracking Apple and Android phones, Mac and PC computers, as well as cloud storage accounts. After extracting a copy of the Candiru platform from an infected computer in Western Europe, Citizen Lab worked with Microsoft to identify at least 100 other surveillance targets — journalists, human rights activists, and political dissidents — in nations spanning the globe, from Palestine to Singapore, Iran to the UK, Yemen to Spain. For more details on which governments have purchased Candiru and learn more about how it work, click the link.

Source: Citizen Lab