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FTA: He had been targeted previously by FinFisher AND Hacking Team's malware. Avoiding malware is nothing new to this guy, something this NSO Group should have
by redwards510 10y ago
FTA: He had been targeted previously by FinFisher AND Hacking Team's malware. Avoiding malware is nothing new to this guy, something this NSO Group should have taken into account when they came up with their spear-phishing attack.
- runesoerensen 10y agoSure but how is that responsive to parent's point about Mansoor being an "outlier in taking precautions"? The reason he found out about the previous attacks was likely because he took similar precautions: "When Ahmed Mansoor opened the document, his suspicions were aroused due to garbled text displayed. His email account was later accessed from the following suspicious IPs.." https://citizenlab.org/2012/10/backdoors-are-forever-hacking-team-and-the-targeting-of-dissent/ https://citizenlab.org/2012/10/backdoors-are-forever-hacking...
- mentat 10y agoI'm not sure if you call it a "precaution" when you notice someone's pwnd you. Still good job noticing it after the fact.
- amagumori 10y agoThen again, he's not some comfortable first-world programmer who makes $100K a year and enjoys talking about infosec and opsec as a fun diversion, he's a guy living in a repressive third-world dictatorship who has put his entire life on the line for the human rights of others and probably has little to no computer science or infosec education, so, maybe cut the guy some fucking slack.
- bobsil1 10y ago> third-world Agree strongly, just a small note: UAE is quite wealthy. Higher PPP-adjusted per capita income than Sweden.
- gengkev 10y agoNSO Group claims not to launch attacks itself; rather it only sells tools to do so. So it might even be that the same government has targeted him with all three hacking tools.