Access Now @accessnow.org · Apr 8 Espionage enables repression! In collaboration with Lookout + @smex.org, our Digital Security Helpline exposes a hack-for-hire phishing campaign targeting journalists and dissidents in the MENA region. Here’s what we found, and what it means for civil society 🧵
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Log retention policies get interesting when a breach is this old.
Egyptian journalists and gov’t critics Mostafa Al-A’sar and Ahmed Eltantawy were targeted with spear phishing, using highly personalized messages that look like they came from trusted people and services. @smex.org identified a similar attack against a third victim.