Predator Spyware Strikes Again

On September 22nd, Citizen Lab, in collaboration with Google Project Zero, released a joint report revealing that Ahmen Eltantawy, a former Egyptian member of parliament, was targeted using highly sophisticated spyware. The recent payload obtained and analyzed by Citizen Lab matches the findings reported in a previous report, confirming that the tool used was Predator spyware, a software tool developed by Cytrox.

This attack was complex, as seen by the use of 3 new iOS vulnerabilities as well as …

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