Tuesday 2 August 2016

Syrian dissidents targeted by hackers: U of T’s Citizen Lab

“The operation has many features indicating that the operators may be Iranian,” John Scott-Railton says

The Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto has revealed a new cyber-espionage operation targeting the Syrian opposition.

Its report, which details how targets were tricked into opening malicious files and links containing malware capable of monitoring computers and Android phones, is making headlines around the world.The operation, which the researchers name Group5, was first uncovered when Syrian opposition politician Noura Al-Ameer received e-mails from “Assad Crimes,” a fictitious group.  For the full article click here 



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