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Ethiopia Deployed Israeli-Made Spyware Against Dissidents

Canadian researchers say Ethiopian dissidents living overseas had their devices infected with spyware made by an Israeli defense company. Their findings again raise questions about whether surveillance tools should be supplied to governments with shaky human rights records. The software used in the targeted spying campaigns began in 2016, but so many operational security errors were made that Citizen Lab researchers were able to unravel them. The surveillance software is called PC 360, but was formerly known as PC Surveillance System. Cyberbit says that it “is a vendor and it does not operate any of its products””]

Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/ethiopia-deployed-israeli-made-spyware-against-dissidents-a-10524

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