Champing at the Cyberbit: Ethiopian Dissidents Targeted with New Commercial Spyware

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2017-12-06

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This report describes how Ethiopian dissidents in the US, UK, and other countries were targeted with emails containing sophisticated commercial spyware posing as Adobe Flash updates and PDF plugins. Targets include a US-based Ethiopian diaspora media outlet, a PhD student, a lawyer, and even a Citizen Lab researcher.

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Thanks also to Erik Zouave, Masashi Crete-Nishihata, Lex Gill, Etienne Maynier, Adam Senft, Miles Kenyon, Jawar Mohammed, Etana Habte, Henok Gabisa, and Felix Horne and Cynthia Wong from Human Rights Watch.

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Adobe, Philippines, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Oromia, malware, Indonesia, Ethiopia, commercial spyware, spyware, targeted threats, surveillance

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Bill Marczak, Geoffrey Alexander, Sarah McKune, John Scott-Railton, and Ron Deibert. “Champing at the Cyberbit: Ethiopian Dissidents Targeted with New Commercial Spyware,” Citizen Lab Research Report No. 102, University of Toronto, December 2017.

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