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@RonDeibert

Director, the Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto.

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jan 28

    Our new report out now: "Stopping the Press: Journalist Targeted by Saudi-linked Pegasus Spyware Operator".

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    Surreal but true: has Group advisor & Harvard Professor teaching journalist security. Irony = dead. Best service to pressfreedom (and the world) step down from toxic commercial spyware company board ↘️

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    Jan 31

    An upcoming seminar on journalist security featuring...[checks notes]...a senior advisor to NSO Group

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  4. Jan 30

    The FBI is investigating NSO Group, according to . Part of the risk of offering hacking services to corrupt, despotic, and unaccountable governments that will use them recklessly.

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  5. Jan 29

    Leaked report shows UN offices in Geneva & Vienna, as well as offices at High Commissioner for Human Rights, suffered major breaches. All of these offices have been routinely targeted for espionage by numerous nation-state actors for years, defences weak

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  6. Jan 28

    Our report identifying Saudi targeting of brings the number of journalists and civic media we have confirmed targeted by governments using NSO Group's Pegasus spyware to thirteen

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    a few very quick highlights from the must-read ⁦⁩ report on targeting of ⁦ by “Saudi-linked Pegasus” spyware⁩

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    This is the most important report you will read today.

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  11. Retweeted
    Jan 28

    Knowing to question suspicious messages, even when they're carefully crafted to entice you... That's how  journalists like  protect our sources and information every day. Working with awesome folks like is how we help expose those lurking in shadows.

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    Jan 28

    I got a weird SMS. I didn't click. Researchers concluded it was a hacking attempt with Israeli software by hackers linked to Saudi Arabia. Saudi officials: no comment. The Israeli company: not all hack attempts use our products. Be careful out there, kids.

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  13. Jan 28

    Here is 's account of his targeting we verified coming from Saudi operators using NSO Group's Pegasus Spyware

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    Deeply concerning. was targeted using NSO spyware, says. Kudos to Ben for knowing who to call — and to the Times for agreeing to make this case public. Not all organizations have the courage to talk about these threats publicly.

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  15. Jan 28

    . is the first American journalist we have verified to be targeted with NSO's spyware. I suspect he's not the only one, or the last.

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    Jan 27
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  18. Jan 25
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  19. Jan 23

    Saudi dissident Ghanem Almasarir sues Saudi Arabia in UK courts over alleged hacking using NSO Group spyware; his targeting was, indeed, confirmed by in this case.

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  20. Jan 22

    5. Within civil society, which is our research focus, Citizen Lab has identified hundreds of journalists, human rights defenders, politicians and others who have been targeted with these technologies.

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