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EU parliament member hit by Israeli Candiru spyware
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#52I notice issues relating to these groups (israeli cyber groups) are very quick to be denied or delegitimised on HN
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#53I notice issues relating to these groups (israeli cyber groups) are very quick to be denied or delegitimised on HN
This piece might be relevant: https://www.leefang.com/p/inside-the-pro-israel-information
It’s a minor effort compared to the hundreds of millions Iran, China, and Russia have spent for a decade on influence operations.
Those get little air time in hard progressive or far right spaces since these anti liberal influence operations mostly promote hard progressive and far right perspectives.
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#54Not to downplay, but i would assume high profile people like EU parliment members would be targeted with phishing emails on a near daily basis.
Like presumably law makers would be target #1 for espionage.
Heck most ordinary people get phishing emails on a regular basis.
Idk, i guess i was expecting something more sophisticated based on the headline than just: spear phishing attempt foiled after user fails to click on the suspicious link.
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#55I notice issues relating to these groups (israeli cyber groups) are very quick to be denied or delegitimised on HN
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The level of systemic insitutional corruption that permits this is scary, I've never been so uneasy to present personal stances on issues that I knew to be the moral ones, such as the equality of all human lives, in my country (Australia) before this in my life.
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#56Sounds more like it missed. They sent him a link, and he was wise enough to not click on it.
I wonder how that was supposed to work? Am I to believe that they have exploits for every browser engine on every OS that infect my phone just by visiting a page? Chrome on Android and WebKit on iOS? That would be concerning, but how realistic is that?
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#57Not to downplay, but i would assume high profile people like EU parliment members would be targeted with phishing emails on a near daily basis. Like presumably law makers would be target #1 for espionage. Heck most ordinary people get phishing emails on a regular basis. Idk, i guess i was expecting something more sophisticated based on the headline than just: spear phishing attempt foiled after user fails to click on…
Well, it wasn’t phishing. If the claims are correct, just opening the link would have compromised the phone. If that’s true, I find it try extraordinary. Phishing is just having a fake webpage asking for credentials, right? Infecting a phone with spyware just by visiting a webpage is much harder and much worse.
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i agree. Often these are also specifically said to be 'ex militairy' types or founders etc. it's actually really hard to be anything else but 'ex militairy' in a country which has everyone forced in the army a few years... - all these useless points of information show u it's propaganda. maybe not 'official' but then indirect. someone infected with the disease and spreading it.
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#59I notice issues relating to these groups (israeli cyber groups) are very quick to be denied or delegitimised on HN
This applies to any Western government interest group, at least for small submissions or individual comments that relate to those organizations. Large ones like the Assange release cannot be suppressed, but are full of pro-government comments that would not have been made by any software engineer before 2015. So either the engineers have changed fundamentally, or ...
Or what? Your comment was truncated for me.
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#60Not to downplay, but i would assume high profile people like EU parliment members would be targeted with phishing emails on a near daily basis. Like presumably law makers would be target #1 for espionage. Heck most ordinary people get phishing emails on a regular basis. Idk, i guess i was expecting something more sophisticated based on the headline than just: spear phishing attempt foiled after user fails to click on…
Why would you say not to downplay when that's literally the intention of your comment?