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Disinfo/cyber reporter @Haaretz @haaretzcom 📰 #TeamJorge #ProjectPegasus ■ Wikipedialogist ■ Covering knowledge in age of disinfo ■ Research fellow @lpiParis_

Born in New York, raised in Tel Aviv
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SCOOP: We went undercover & discovered a secret disinformation-for-hire group called Team Jorge selling election interference, hack-and-leak & influence as a service. They claim to have meddled in 33 elections THREAD #TeamJorge @FredMetzo @GurMegiddo
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SCOOP We got our hands on screen shots of an early prototype of Pegasus, called Syaphan and intended for use by the Israeli police These photos are the closest we’ve gotten to seeing real working Pegasus system THREAD @JoshBreiner @haaretzcom
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🚨SCOOP: My new @Haaretzcom investigation reveals new Israeli cyber companies developed technology that exploits the heart of the online economy - ads - not just for mass surveillance, but also to hack phones 👇
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פייק ניוז בערוץ 20 ודוגמא יפה לאיך מנגנוני פרופגנדה פופוליסטים לא רק מפיץ מידע כוזב אלא גם עושה פוליטיזציה מיותרת ושיטתית למקורות ידע אמינים - בדרך כלל תקשורת ואקדמיה אבל במקרה הזה ויקיפדיה (שרשור קצר)
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מי שינה את הערך של ליאת בן ארי בויקיפדיה? לקטע המלא>> @ErelSegal @KastelMoti
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SCOOP Meet Toka, an Israeli camera hacking firm set up by former PM Ehud Barak and the IDF’s ex-cyber chief. It sells only to intel bodies and law enforcement and allows them to “access” and “alter” camera feeds
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3 years
Netanyahu's cyber spyware diplomacy: Where Bibi goes, NSO's Pegasus soon began to operate >> @amitaiz @haaretzcom @FbdnStories #PegsusProject
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tldr; Team Jorge are a 1-stop-shop of influence & psyops Their business model: disinformation-as-a-service, or DaaS. Their software: AIMS, an advanced system for creating and deploying fake accounts without detection #TeamJorge @FredMetzo @GurMegiddo
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Tel Aviv this morning: police arresting Palestinians who entered Israel illegally to go to... the beach
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I've spent that last two weeks combing over the amazing work done by @amnesty 's Security Lab & @citizenlab to put together this list of all the confirmed victims of the Pegasus. Did I miss anyone? DM me and we'll update the list @haaretzcom
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“Make the deal, it’s for Israel’s security” Investigation reveals: Where Netanyahu traveled, NSO soon followed. This is how Israel became the cyber industry’s patron and pushed spyware sales across the world - @amitaiz for #PegasusProject @haaretzcom
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BOOM: Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert was involved with cyber firm Intellexa and was even supposed to help pitch its cyber tools to Germany Massive scoop by @danieldolev at @HashomrimOrg as part of the #PredatorFiles published by @EICnetwork
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A year ago I boarded a plan to Greece and began working on what would be the main focus of my spyware investigations since: A firm called Intellexa which offers the same type of spyware as NSO, but unlike NSO does not operate under Israeli oversight
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כפי שאמר לי חוקר אמריקאי בהקשר לבחירות באמריקה: הרוח הקונספירטיבית יותר מכל קונספירציה ספציפית היא התנאי האפשרות של QAnon. עולם בו הכול אפשרי ואי אפשר להאמין לאף אחד הוא המטרה האמתית של סוכני דיסאינפורמציה. שם זה טראמפ/פוקס/OAN, וכאן זה ערוץ 20 וכו
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SCOOP: Together with @FakeReporter , researchers have uncovered, for the first time since the start of the war, an Israeli influence operation in English. The targets: U.S. lawmakers & Hamas-UNRWA Here's what we found: 👇 #InfluenceOps @haaretzcom
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אז למה ויקיפדיה? כי המפתח למה שמוכנה truth decay - שחיקת מעמדה של האמת ברמה חברתית רחבה - היא פירוק שיטתי של מוסדות ידע כמו ויקיפדיה המבוססים על עובדות מבוססות. והאייטם הזה של ערוץ 20 הוא מתקפה לא רק על עובדה אחת ספציפית אלא על עובדתיות ברשת באופן כללי
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This early prototype of a Pegasus-like system also allows remote recording - not just live interception of calls but actually turning the phone into a recording device @JoshBreiner @haaretzcom
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SCOOP PART 2: After discovering #TeamJorge , we ( @GurMegiddo @FredMetzo ) went undercover AGAIN and had a series of meetings with a firm that likes to pretend that its the quote/unquote ""legitimate"" side of the disinformation-for-hire market Meet Percepto
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As one source told me: “Israel is the ONLY country in the world that export regulations don’t apply to. Offensive cyber firms can sell Israel anything and everything, not just tech but also services” @JoshBreiner @haaretzcom
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The spyware also allows operators - in this case, potentially Israeli police officers - to remotely turn on a phone’s camera @JoshBreiner @haaretzcom
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They bear all the hallmarks of what we’d expect from a mobile tactical interception system: for example access to call logs and messages - including those from encrypted apps like WhatsApp @JoshBreiner @haaretzcom
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These are screen shots of the program and the police planned to present them to the government. They showcase the spyware program’s capabilities @JoshBreiner @haaretzcom
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Omer Benjakob
3 years
התשובה ברורה: כי אף אחד לא יבדוק או שהכתב עצלן מדי, או גם וגם, והמטרה תמיד הייתה לחזור שוב ושוב על הטענות שיש מי שפועל להסתיר מהציבור את האמת לגבי נתניהו
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לפעמים סלפי בודד של עובד אחד ממטוס פרטי זה קצה חוט מספיק להרים תחקיר חוצה גבולות על סחר בינלאומי בנשק דיגיטלי @avischarf @cr0ft0n @LHreports @telloglou @e_triantafillou
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סקופון: הFBI התבקש לחקור לפחות 2 מקרים של גנבת זהות בעקבות תחקיר של ⁦ @fakereporter1 ⁩ שחשף שאלמונים השתמשו בחשבונות טוויטר שנחזו לכאלה השייכים לאנשים מוכרים בקהילה היהודית בארה"ב - בניסיון לאסוף מידע על פעילים במחאה נגד נתניהו >> ⁦ @Haaretz
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עזבו שנייה את השאלה למה זה שווה אייטם (זה לא, תאמינו לי ככתב לענייני ויקיפדיה שהשחתות שנמחקות תוך דק הם אירוע יומיומי). למה לשקר? למה שקר שכל כך קל לבדוק ולהפריך? (*8* *פאקינג* *דק*)
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The spyware also traces its targets movements and all these different pieces of information are brought together in this simple to use program @JoshBreiner @haaretzcom
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שרשור מלא על התחקיר שהתפרסם הבוקר ב @Haaretz בעקבות עבודת הקודש של @FakeReporter
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פייק ריפורטר | FakeReporter
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הכל! (כמעט) על הרשת הזרה שחיה בתוכנו כבר שנתיים: תחקיר שלנו עם @omerbenj מראה כיצד הצליחה לחדור למחאה למען השבת החטופים, שלחה אזרחים למשימות ואספה מודיעין. איך תדעו אם נפלתם ברשת, מה הקשר לרב הראשי לשעבר, ואיך הכל התחיל מיאיר נתניהו? מתחילים🧵 >>
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סגל משקר - ״מי שיפתח את הערך היום לא יראה את הפרטים האלה, נכון?״ - ושואל את הכתב, שעונה ״נכון״... למרות שלפני פחות מדקה אותו כתב נלהב אמר שהעריכה נעשתה לפני חודש, הוא לא מתקן את השקר ואומר ״נכון״... כמובן הוא לא ציין שזה היה *באוויר 8 דק*
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איך ישראל אישרה למכור למדינה לא דמוקרטית טכנולוגיה סודית ו"מטורפת" של פריצה לטלפונים ומחשבים - ואז נבהלה. ״כל שצריך זה פאשלה אחת של לקוח, מקרה אחד של ניצול לרעה כדי שהיכולת כולה תישרף לגמרי" חשיפה שלי ושל דסק "השירות החשאי", היום בבוקר על שער מוסף הארץ
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השקר של ערוץ 20: נטען כי ״מי שיכנס לויקיפדיה היום״ לא ידע את האמת על ליאת בן ארי כי מישהו מחק מהערך שלה פרטים חשובים. אבל העריכה המדוברת הייתי באוויר במשך *8 דק* לפני *3 שבועות*
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Sources I spoke to me say the current version of Pegasus does not look EXACTLY like this but is extremely similar in terms of its menus, functions and interface style (though the colors are different now) @JoshBreiner @haaretzcom
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We always hear about Pegasus in OTHER countries - be it Spain or the UAE - but one thing people forget is that Israel is also a client @JoshBreiner @haaretzcom
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In first, Israeli citizen found to have been infected by Pegasus twice in the past two years. Unclear why the man, who is active in the protests against Netanyhu, was targeted and by who. Forensics by @JamfSoftware @ZecOps @citizenlab
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🚨This is surveillance capitalism at its finest! The world of "digital arms" has evolved, moving into the realm of ad-based intelligence (AdInt). This is how this next-gen digital weapon leaked into the private cyber arms sector >>
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Report says Israeli spyware was used in Trinidad and Tobago to spy on lawmakers, journalists and judges. However, it may not be NSO but a different Israeli spyware – one recently found on the phone of a Greek journalist >> THREAD
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SCOOP with @DrWhax - Israel killed Morocco's access to Pegasus - but also failed to okay its deal with QuaDream - Leaked code reveals their spyware and show it may have abused WhatsApp - Sources: Firm also developed “terrifying” new spyware
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The long story: @FbdnStories follows up on the work of journalists that are threatened or killed. They decided to bring together reporters from across the world to investigate the shady disinformation-for-hire industry
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tldr; Over 6 secretly recorded meetings, they pitched their DaaS tech, boasted about past activities. For 6+ months 100+ reporters investigated their claims @Damien_Leloup @flornrnd @Kzalan @HoffHeiner @christo_buschek @romanlehberger @m_hoppenstedt @skirchy to name a few
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The whole world is watching. But Israel - and Gaza - are blurry. @ausland2 and I set out to find out why?
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Over the course of Zoom meetings, Team Jorge pitched their bundle of services. First, you collect “active intelligence on your targets” - this includes hacking into email and messaging accounts. These can later be leaked. #TeamJorge @FredMetzo @GurMegiddo
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After meeting in Paris, @GurMegiddo had an idea: We should pose as potential clients & try to get a meeting w these firms. Get them to pitch themselves @FredMetzo #teamjorge
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No morals, no qualms, no borders: From a small office building , a group of Israelis is spreading global disruption, boasting of election intereference, hacking and manipulation investigation by @GurMegiddo @omerbenj @FredMetzo Haaretz/RadioFrance 1/n
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“Philosophy is a battle against bewitchment of our intelligence by language,” excellent piece by @AuerbachKeller
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אחרי שנים שקהלת פועלים בויקיפדיה בשלל דרכים - כולל הפעלה של עורכים בתשלום - נחשף שעובד בקהלת הפעיל גם חשבונות מזויפים. קהלת טוענים שזה נעשה ללא ידיעתם וללא אישור מצידם. מדובר בפרשה חמורה מאוד והפרה חמורה של חוקי הקהילה - ויש מי שדורש לחסום את הפורום
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Sometimes all it takes is one selfie on a private jet by a single employee to launch a cross-border investigation into the dark side of the digital arms market @avischarf @LHreports @cr0ft0n @daniel_howden @e_triantafillou @telloglou >>
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Mysterious hacker groups are knocking out critical infrastructure in Iran, leaking secret info about the IRGC, hijacking TV broadcasts and trying to foment uprising against Tehran. Cyber revenge for October 7 seems to have begun >>
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Some were playing out in front of our very eyes. We were shown the live Telegram account of a senior Kenyan official, now a serving minister. Jorge showed us how he could send messages from his target’s phone. #TeamJorge @FredMetzo @GurMegiddo
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Happy new years from Jaffa-Tel Aviv :/
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CLEARED FOR PUBLICATION: #ProjectPegasus reveals massive list of potential targets of Israeli spyware NSO, including Modi’s biggest rival Rahul Gandhi and even (an old number belonging to) Pakistani leader Imran Khan >> @FbdnStories @amitaiz @haaretzcom
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After a week of shock, I finally managed to do some reporting: as Hamas commandos were crossing the boarder into Israel, a digital offensive was also launched Alongside Hamas propaganda bots, disinfo about the war being an “inside job” or an “IDF betrayal” were rampant
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Musk’s X and Hamas’ digital offensive: Gaza is a perfect storm of disinformation
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The project, if anyone was crazy enough to take it on: Postpone an election in an African country without any reason. And the disinfo industry said: HOLD MY BEER #TeamJorge @FredMetzo @GurMegiddo
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This is one of the most concerning disinformation narratives to emerge this past 12 days. My last report, based on @FakeReporter ’s amazing work, explains its origin and how it’s getting help from the far right and conspiracy theorist across the globe
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The conspiracy alleging that Israel or someone inside Israel has helped Hamas massacre citizens continues to circulate. This bogus allegations for example has gained 5.4M Views(!). It is based on a Rabbi that "knows confidential sources" and is utterly nonsense.
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What happens in Cyprus does not stay in Cyprus.. Israeli cyber firm attempting to avoid oversight sets up shop in Cyprus, then Athens and now the Greece spy chief & top aide to PM quit after journalist ⁦ @nasoskook ⁩ and head of Greek opposition hacked
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🏁There's a digital arms race taking place over the last 5 years to use ads not just for geolocation - but also as a cyber weapon >>
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Cybersecurity industry sources tell me that the cyber attack on Israeli .gov websites was a big distributed denial of service ( #DDos ) attack and that it *may* be a state op, **maybe** even an Iranian one, but not Ukraine related .
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Admit that you had no idea that most of the Mideast is more liberal than Alabama on abortions - super proud of this project by @NogaMalkin
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Israel is collecting evidence digital & physical for a war crimes case against Hamas OSINT/SOCMINT firms helped set up "The Library" based on video from Hamas terrorists' GoPro cams, social media accounts & other online sources @ran_shimoni @chenmaanit7
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Sources linked us to middlemen, mediators put us in touch with door openers. None seem bothered by the fact we wanted to have a democratic election called of for no reason #TeamJorge @FredMetzo @GurMegiddo
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. @FredMetzo played a mild-mannered French consultant I played the neurotic American @GurMegiddo the ex-Israeli More calls were made. After one key introduction, we were told to call Jorge.
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Forbidden Stories
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You might be wondering: Who are they? #StoryKillers reveals the identity of Jorge, whose real name is Tal Hanan, a former Israeli special forces officer who surrounds himself with former Israeli intelligence officers and spin doctors. He denied "any wrong doing".
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🌐 Who's behind Insanet? A group of seasoned cyber entrepreneurs with strong Israeli intelligence ties and young innovators with a dual background in military cyber units and the ad industry >>
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Now it’s personal: US slaps personal sanctions on rouge Israeli intel spyware firm and its founder. News shows that though initially concerned with Israeli firms like NSO and Candiru, the WH is now more concerned by unregulated Israelis operating abroad .
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How Israeli spy tech, specifically NSO's Pegasus, is used across the world to hunt journalists, activists and even leading politicians from India to Saudi Arabia THREAD on the #PegasusProject #ProjectPegasus investigation by @FbdnStories & @amnesty
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🚨 The age of AI-driven disinfo and information warfare is upon us 🚨 Kremlin-run Doppelganger campaign is back, @antibot4navalny & others find: 20k+ of AI-written posts pushed out by 6k+ automatic accounts, alongside fake websites & deep fake video >>
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🖥️Their product - "Sherlock." This tool exploited ads to infiltrate devices - peak of surveillance capitalism. It has the power to breach Windows, iPhones, AND Androids. A universal hacking tool >>
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NSO also tried to get into the game and developed a yet-reported product called Truman to try to take the lead in developing an offensive AdInt market. But the twist? They never got to launch it >>
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Sources say the #BlastDoor exploit identified by @citizenlab was developed by NSO hackers, but the infection chain or at least parts of it are also used by other Israeli spyware firm that will now struggle to continue to provide coverage for clients
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My latest study is out! How did Wikipedia fend off COVID-19 disinformation? Our biblometric study reveals a key aspect that helps explain why Wikipedia did so much better than Facebook and Twitter @JonathanSobel1 @rona_av @GigaScience @WikiResearch @CriResearch @Wikimedia
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#CitationNeeded ? #Wikipedia bibliometrics during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. New from @jonathansobel1 studying how wikpedians fended off #COVID19 disinformation during the start of the pandemic
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🛑 It's new era of digital warfare and the lines between ads, tech, and espionage blur. As technology continues to advance, the need for well-governed ethical use and strict regulations becomes paramount
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🌐 Enter Insanet: Not just a catchy name, but a nod to the insanity of their tech. Founded in 2019, they're the only firm to every legally sell an offensive AdInt technology >>
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@yashar Define “gadget”...
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“If NSO could be said to be an actor with problematic ethics, at least everything it did was legal and cleared with the Israeli state. This is something different and much more severe" - my investigation into #Intellexa an Israeli owned cyber intel firm
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Jorge and his team - aka #TeamJorge - we would soon learn have a lot of experience in election interference - and no lack of ideas @FredMetzo @GurMegiddo
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Indonesia has no diplomatic ties w Israel. But an investigation lead by @AmnestyTech reveals Israeli firms selling spy tech were working in Indonesia from about 2018 if not '17 @tempo_english @lolonaeg @wavkollektiv @wochenzeitung @DrWhax @insidestory_gr
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Omer Benjakob
4 years
In 2019, Wikipedia cracked down on disinformation like never before - and pro-Trump web sites were the first to go
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Omer Benjakob
4 years
Wikipedia is dealing masterfully with the #coronavirus infodemic. The crisis has led the community & even the @Wikimedia Foundation to acknowledge @Wikipedia 's role as the public’s main source of medical & health information today
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Omer Benjakob
9 months
💰The price tag for such a vector? An eye-watering 6 million euros for a single infection. If Pegasus is considered the nuclear bomb of digital arms, Sherlock is the warhead >>
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Omer Benjakob
3 years
The Israeli phone-hacking firm Cellebrite claimed it can break into Signal - the world’s most encrypted app. Yesterday Signal’s founder @moxie got his revenge and revealed he hacked the hackers and found some serious flaw #THREAD
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Omer Benjakob
9 months
🎯Insanet managed to legally navigate these turbulent waters, selling a product that many deemed... well, insane!
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Donncha Ó Cearbhaill
9 months
Bombshell new report today from Haaretz ( @omerbenj ) about the spyware industry’s continued efforts to subvert our collective cyber-security, now by turning already invasive ad networks into spyware infection vectors.
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Omer Benjakob
5 years
As a teen who just moved to Israel and knew no Hebrew, I read him fanatically As an adult, I had the honor of working with him Today, @bradleyburston writes his last column for @haaretzcom His wise words, unique style & boundless optimism will be missed
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Omer Benjakob
2 years
The head of Greece’s socialist party was targeted by the #predator spyware, made by #cytrox , which is owned by #Intellexa . He’s the second EU national targeted by the spyware; the first being journalist ⁦ @nasoskook ⁩ .
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Omer Benjakob
3 years
אחרי שהסתבכו עם האפליקציה הכי מוצפנת בעולם, החברה הישראלית סלברייט (שעוזרת למשטרות לפרוץ לטלפונים של חשודים/עצורים) על המוקד ובארץ ובחו״ל דורשים מהמשטרות: תפסיקו להשתמש בטכנולוגיה הזאת. שבוע שעבר נחשף כי ניתן לפרוץ לתוכנה של סלברייט, מה שעלול להטיל בספק בראיות שהיא אוספת @oyoyoy
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Omer Benjakob
1 year
Though there is no case or claim or any wrongdoing or misuse, Toka’s tech - once the stuff of science fiction or movies - raises important political, legal and ethical questions “These are unimaginable capabilities. This is a dystopian technology from a human rights perspective”
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Omer Benjakob
9 months
🌍 The global implications? Israeli firms developed tech that was meant to counter terrorism, but as they are sold to nations with questionable track records, they are frequently abused and turned on journalists and human rights defenders >>
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Omer Benjakob
2 years
A short thread on Pegasus, the Israeli occupation and how we define terror in wake of this AMAZING Guardian scoop about the CIA calling BS on Israel's claim that Palestinian rights orgs are terror groups- a claim based on intel collected by hacking phones
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Omer Benjakob
3 years
Watching a #Qanon supporter on the Senate dais, with no plan, no shirt & a bewildered look on his face, reminded me of what Prof. @YBenkler said ahead of the elex: Russian propaganda aims “to create a world where nothing is true and everything is possible”
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Omer Benjakob
1 year
SCOOP Previously unknown Israeli cyberoffense firm that sold tech to Gulf states - NFV Systems - is under investigation by secretive defense body for skirting arms exports - in a case that may ‘damage national security’ @avischarf @JoshBreiner
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Omer Benjakob
9 months
🖥️ A leaked 2019 Candiru sales document shows how Sherlock was billed alongside their PC spyware. As a vector, it can breach Windows, iPhones, AND Androids. At the time, no one knew Insanet existed & the tool was (mis)attributed to Candiru
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Omer Benjakob
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I cannot explain how important it is that this story is finally out… even if Gur took two years
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Gur Megiddo גור מגידו
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How Israel nixed Haaretz's report into alleged Mossad extortion of Hague prosecutor
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Omer Benjakob
1 year
Toka is under Israeli ministry of defense oversight - its clients are mostly US and it’s allies in the west, but also includes Israel and likely Singapore Revealed: The Israeli Firm Selling ‘Dystopian’ Hacking Capabilities - National Security & Cyber
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Omer Benjakob
2 years
אתר המתחזה לבלוג של אלוף בן כלל מאות טורים אמיתיים שפירסם. אך הוא גם כלל מספר "חשיפות" מזויפות לגמרי, כמו ״פגישה סודית בין @idanroll לנשיא תימן״ שבמסגרתה תימן הסכימה לכאורה להכיר בישראל. הכתבות המזויפות קודמו בין השאר באתר של אל מנאר (חיזבאללה) @oyoyoy
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Omer Benjakob
5 years
How Polish nationalists are rewriting the history of the Holocaust on Wikipedia - my latest for @haaretzcom #FakeNews #fakehistory #KLWarschau #polocaust #polokaust
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Haaretz.com
5 years
For over 15 years, false claims that thousands of Poles were gassed to death in Warsaw were presented as fact
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Omer Benjakob
5 years
מי הם האנשים והכוחות שמעצבים את האתר השביעי הכי פופולארי בישראל - תחקיר שלי ושל מתיאו כהן, מחר על השער של מוסף הארץ ועכשיו באתר הארץ .
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Omer Benjakob
1 year
According to a company pitch deck obtained by @Haaretz @haaretzcom , Toka offers “previously out-of-reach capabilities” that “transform untapped IoT sensors into intelligence sources,” and can be used “for intelligence and operational needs.”
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Omer Benjakob
1 year
INSANE SCOOP by @hagar_shezaf , @yanivkub & @avischarf : During the last Gaza war, the IDF opened fake accounts online as part of an influence operation (aka psychological warfare) aimed at ISRAELI CITIZENS!
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Omer Benjakob
5 years
How Ayn Rand and Jordan Peterson are breaking Israel's extreme right
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Omer Benjakob
2 years
.⁦ @nasoskook ⁩ was investigating Greece’s biggest corruption scandal. Then his phone was hacked .
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Omer Benjakob
9 months
🚫Insanet's journey wasn't smooth sailing. Although they could initially legally sell Sherlock, the Israeli Defense Ministry soon reigned in their permit. They did manage to sell Sherlock to one (nondemocratic) country >>
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Omer Benjakob
5 years
How Polish nationalists are rewriting the history of the Holocaust on Wikipedia - my cover story for @haaretzcom #FakeNews #fakehistory #KLWarschau #polocaust #polokaust
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Omer Benjakob
1 year
חשיפה שלנו הבוקר: איראן מפעילה קבוצות מתחזות בכדי להשפיע על פעילי מחאה ופעילים תומכי נתנהו לבצע פעולות בשטחה. שמטרתן/ העמקת הקרע החברתי. כך למשל הצליחה להביא אנשים לתלות בבתיהם שלטים בהם נכתב "אין דמוקרטיה - אין קול" @bar_peleg @omerbenj @JoshBreiner
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