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EU parliament member hit by Israeli Candiru spyware

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Re: EU parliament member hit by Israeli Candiru spyware

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post #35

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It could be Israel or an entity that purchased a licence. One way or another Israelis probably know who it was.

I'm an "Israeli" and I have no clue who it was.

But you know what “Israelis” used in this context means? In the same way, the cities of “Washington” and “Moscow” also don’t have any opinions and don’t release press statements, contrary to frequent media reports. Are you going to point that out too?

Re: EU parliament member hit by Israeli Candiru spyware

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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.

anti liberal influence operations do not promote hard progressive perspectives.

Re: EU parliament member hit by Israeli Candiru spyware

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Hundreds of millions, you say?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/10/sheldon-adel...

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republican-mega-donor-adels...

I'm pro-Israel, but the current Israel government is widely called far right by the mainstream media, so I don't not know what to make of your comment at all.

If you talk about general influencing: It has been known for decades that the USSR and its successors have influence operations. No need to mention it. It would be interesting though to follow the money: Perhaps your innocent "liberal" mainstream operation that is anti-meritocracy and therefore undermines the West is financed by Russia.

Re: EU parliament member hit by Israeli Candiru spyware

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post #36

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What on earth do you consider the common thread between those two names?

Both are "evil". (edit: I am not the poster you replied to)

But in this case the thinking went probably like

phishing -> fishing -> bad fish

Re: EU parliament member hit by Israeli Candiru spyware

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post #2

Sounds 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?

Very. These companies pay good money for 0 days and invest considerable effort into finding their own.

Also these attacks are aimed at individuals and executed by state actors. They likely already knew what phone, OS, and browser the MEP was using and selected an appropriate attack from the catalog.

Re: EU parliament member hit by Israeli Candiru spyware

#69
post #43

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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.

...or it's non-software-engineers writing those pro-government comments.

(just the logical conclusion of the statement, intentionally made blank)

Re: EU parliament member hit by Israeli Candiru spyware

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Interesting that they named their company after the Amazonian fish that can supposedly swim up your penis and lodge itself inside

Seems to be a pattern in these circles - there's at least also Palantir, named after the crystal ball that corrupted Saruman in The Lord of the Rings.

To be fair it is a pretty cool/appropriate name for their line of work
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