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Julian-Ferdinand Vögele @julianferdinand.bsky.social · 11d

If you're based in Berlin, there's an event this Tuesday on spyware, hosted by @amnestyuk.bsky.social and @papertrailmedia.de. It includes workshops by @donncha.is, @jurrevanbergen.nl, and others, drop-in sessions, and a panel. Tickets are still available: www.hebbel-am-ufer.de/programm/pde...

Amnesty International

Digital Surveillance: How States Are Spying on the Resistance

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Amnesty Deutschland @amnesty.de · 11d

Danke Berlin!
#AllEyesOnGaza

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Lena Rohrbach @artepovera.bsky.social · 13d

Join us?

💥Workshops w/ @papertrailmedia.de @amnesty.de @interseclab.bsky.social

💥Dig. Security Clinic w/ @accessnow.org, @pressefreiheit.bsky.social&Tact. Tech

💥Panel w/ @donncha.is @sophieintveld.bsky.social @davidyambio.bsky.social @anjaosterhaus.bsky.social

&Art by @forensicarchi.bsky.social

Weißer Text auf schwarzem Grund: Digital Surveillance: How States are Spying on the Resistance, mit Logos von HAU und Amnesty International

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Margi Murphy @margimurphy.bsky.social · 20d

For more than a year I’ve spoken with Scattered Spider “caller” Noah Urban from a Florida jail. I wanted to know how they chose victims, their methods and how Noah became entangled in a virtually and physically violent world.

We’re publishing his story today: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

‘I Was a Weird Kid’: Jailhouse Confessions of a Teen Hacker

Noah Urban’s role in the notorious Scattered Spider gang was talking people into unwittingly giving criminals access to sensitive computer systems.

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Amnesty Deutschland @amnesty.de · 22d

Staatliche digitale Überwachung der Zivilgesellschaft: Am 30.9. bringen Amnesty und das HAU in Berlin Journalist*innen, Aktivist*innen, Technolog*innen, politische Entscheidungsträger*innen und die von Spionageprogrammen Betroffenen zusammen. Infos & Anmeldung 👇
www.hebbel-am-ufer.de/programm/pde...

Amnesty International

Digital Surveillance: How States Are Spying on the Resistance

www.hebbel-am-ufer.de

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Amnesty International @amnesty.org · 22d

There is no more time for excuses: as the evidence of Israel’s genocide continues to mount the international community cannot claim they didn’t know.

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Osservatorio Nessuno OdV @osservatorionessuno.org · Sep 6

We are announcing Bugbane, an open-source Android app that makes consensual mobile forensics more accessible. It's compatible with MVT and AndroidQF.

Now in an open-beta, we are calling for community feedbacks before a general public release by EOY!

osservatorionessuno.org/blog/2025/09...

Bugbane: Simplifying consensual Android forensics

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Lena Rohrbach @artepovera.bsky.social · Sep 9

🚨Out today: In Pakistan können jederzeit über 4 Mill. Menschen gleichzeitig willkürlich überwacht werden.
Die Technik („LIMS“) stammt vom deutschen Unternehmen Utimaco und ist eigentlich im Export kontrolliert. Unsere neue, einjährige Recherche von @amnesty.de @amnesty.org & Partner*innen zeigt:

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Donncha Ó Cearbhaill @donncha.is · 29d

Highly recommend reading the excellent technical analysis from @interseclab.bsky.social. They mined the huge Geedge Networks leak to understand how techniques powering their surveillance and censorship products.

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Donncha Ó Cearbhaill @donncha.is · 29d

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Justice For Myanmar @justiceformyanmar.org · Sep 9

Press Release 📣 Report reveals how China’s Geedge Networks and Myanmar telecoms companies are enabling the illegal junta’s digital terror campaign

Read the report and press release on our website 👉🏽 buff.ly/u77rUHa #GreatFirewallExport #JusticeForMyanmar

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Donncha Ó Cearbhaill @donncha.is · 29d

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James Griffiths @jamestgriffiths.com · Sep 9

As part of a consortium of researchers and journalists, I spent the better part of a year digging into leaked documents from Chinese security company Geedge, which plays a pivotal role exporting the Great Firewall around the world: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/15c699a...

Leaked files show a Chinese company is exporting the Great Firewall’s censorship technology

Geedge Networks is providing censorship capabilities to foreign governments, including those in Myanmar, Pakistan, Ethiopia and Kazakhstan

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Donncha Ó Cearbhaill @donncha.is · 29d

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paper trail media @papertrailmedia.de · Sep 9

New Research: Our investigation indicates that the Chinese company Geedge Networks is exporting mass surveillance and censorship technology to Myanmar, Pakistan, Kazakhstan and Ethiopia. #GreatFirewallExport (1/5)

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Donncha Ó Cearbhaill @donncha.is · 29d

The full report from our team @amnesty.org Security Lab details 29 companies and exporting states, including the UAE, USA, Germany, France and China which have powered the surveillance and censorship apparatus in Pakistan.

www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Pakistan: Mass surveillance and censorship machine is fueled by Chinese, European, Emirati and North American companies

Pakistan’s unlawful mass surveillance and censorship expansion is powered by a nexus of companies based in Germany, France, United Arab Emirates (UAE), China, Canada, and the United States, Amnesty In...

www.amnesty.org

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Donncha Ó Cearbhaill @donncha.is · 29d

This investigation was only possible through an excellent year-long collaborative investigation with civil society and media partners @interseclab.bsky.social, @justiceformyanmar.org, @torproject.org, @papertrailmedia.de, Follow The Money, DER STANDARD and The Globe and Mail.

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Donncha Ó Cearbhaill @donncha.is · Sep 9

Great Firewall Export: A new investigation by @amnesty.org
and partners reveals how Geedge Networks, a Chinese company is commercializing the tech behind China's notorious "Great Firewall".

A huge leak of Geedge data reveal their products, deployed in China, Pakistan, and Myanmar among others.

Pakistan: Mass surveillance and censorship machine is fueled by Chinese, European, Emirati and North American companies

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Jurre van Bergen @jurrevanbergen.nl · Sep 9

BREAKING: Amnesty International research found illegal surveillance mass targeted surveillance with LIMS from Utimaco and Datafusion and Chinese commercialized Great Firewall provider active in Pakistan through a leak of documents of Geedge Networks. 🧵#BreakTheFirewall

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Jurre van Bergen @jurrevanbergen.nl · Sep 7

If youre going to the Global Gathering. I'd like to invite you on the 9th of September at 15:00-1600 to circle 3 where we'll detail our new investigation "Inside a Cross-Border Investigation on Surveillance and Censorship Tech" w/ InterSecLab.

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September 9 2025 Agenda - TCU Wiki

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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · Aug 29

A spyware vendor was behind a recent campaign that abused a vulnerability in WhatsApp to deliver an exploit capable of hacking into iPhones and Macs.

WhatsApp fixes 'zero-click' bug used to hack Apple users with spyware | TechCrunch

A spyware vendor was behind a recent campaign that abused a vulnerability in WhatsApp to deliver an exploit capable of hacking into iPhones and Macs.

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Rawya Rageh @rawya.bsky.social · Jul 26

I can’t believe we are watching the deliberate starvation in Gaza and are this helpless. How is this 2025? How did we as a human race allow this to happen? How?

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Jul 21

🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency.

They are out of energy and they are starving to death.

I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it.

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Sans intervention immédiate, les derniers reporters de Gaza vont mourir
21 juillet 2025
L'AFP travaille avec une pigiste texte, trois photographes et six pigistes vidéo dans la Bande de Gaza depuis le départ de ses journalistes staff courant 2024.
Avec quelques autres, ils sont aujourd'hui les seuls à rapporter ce qu'il se passe dans la Bande de Gaza. La presse internationale est interdite d'entrer dans ce territoire depuis près de deux ans.
Nous refusons de les voir mourir.
L'un deux, Bashar, collabore pour l'AFP depuis 2010, d'abord comme fixeur, ensuite comme photographe pigiste, et depuis 2024 comme principal photographe.
Samedi 19 juillet, il est parvenu à poster un message sur Facebook: « Je n'ai plus la force de travailler pour les médias.
Mon corps est maigre et je ne peux plus travailler ».
Bashar, 30 ans, travaille et vit dans des conditions égales à celles de tous les Gazaouis, allant d'un camp de réfugiés à un autre camp au gré des bombardements israéliens. Depuis plus d'un an il vit dans le dénuement le plus total et travaille en prenant d'énormes risques pour sa vie. L'hygiène est pour lui un problème majeur, avec des périodes de maladies intestinales sévères.
Bashar vit depuis février dans les ruines de sa maison de Gaza City avec sa mère, ses quatre frères et sœurs et la famille d'un de ses frères. Leur maison est vide de tout aménagement et confort, à part quelques coussins. Dimanche matin, il a rapporté que son frère aîné était « tombé, à cause de la faim ».
Même si ces journalistes reçoivent un salaire mensuel de l'AFP, il n'y a rien à acheter ou alors à des prix totalement exorbitants. Le système bancaire a disparu, et ceux qui pratiquent le change entre les comptes bancaires en ligne et l'argent liquide prennent une commission de près de 40%.
L'AFP n'a plus la possibilité d'avoir un véhicule et encore moins de l'essence pour permettre à ses journalistes de se déplacer pour leurs reportages. Circuler en voiture équivaut de toutes les façons à pre…

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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · Jun 27

According to a DOJ IG report released this week, the Sinaloa cartel identified an FBI official working at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico, tracked him via phone location data, tapped into Mexico’s surveillance camera network, & killed an unspecified number of informants.
www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Sinaloa cartel used phone data and surveillance cameras to find FBI informants, DOJ says

A hacker working for the Sinaloa drug cartel was able to obtain an FBI official's phone records and use Mexico City's surveillance cameras to help track and kill the agency's informants in 2018, the U.S. Justice Department said in a report issued on Thursday.

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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · Jun 14

Wrote for @theguardian.com about Ballymena and Northern Ireland's long history of violence against women ⬇️

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Ballymena violence has nothing to do with ‘protecting women’. It is racism, pure and simple | Sarah Creighton

Northern Ireland has always seen high levels of violence against women and girls. Blaming migrants is a useful way to distract from that, says political commentator from Northern Ireland Sarah Creight...

www.theguardian.com

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Sophie in't Veld @sophieintveld.bsky.social · May 19

The-dog-ate-my-homework pretext for delaying the spyware abuse trial in Greece. One of the rare cases in Europe that made it to the court. Most spyware victims have no real legal remedy, impunity reigns for spyware abuse.

Bruno Tersago @brunotersago.bsky.social · May 19

Lost in Translation: Predator Spyware Trial in Greece Delayed Amid Interpreter Shortage
Well, well, isn't that convenient? www.dnews.gr/eidhseis/new...

Lost in Translation: Predator Spyware Trial in Greece Delayed Amid Interpreter Shortage - Dnews

The high-profile trial linked to Greece’s surveillance scandal has been postponed indefinitely, after a failure to translate key court documents into English. The case, heard at the Athens Single-Memb...

www.dnews.gr

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Ron Deibert @rondeibert.bsky.social · May 6

I'm thinking of all of the countless victims, only a fraction of which we @citizenlab.ca @accessnow.org @amnesty.org and others identified of NSO Group's malicious sales to ruthless despots and corrupt security agencies.

Never let bullies win.

Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · May 6

In a stunning defeat for the #spyware industry, an Oakland jury has directed Pegasus maker NSO Group to pay Meta's WhatsApp $167 million in punitive damages for routing its attacks through the company's servers. GIFT LINK wapo.st/4jLGYKz

Spyware maker NSO ordered to pay $167 million for hacking WhatsApp

Jury hits NSO with punitive damages after first public legal reckoning for Israel-based maker of spy software banned from use in U.S.

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · Apr 10

⚠️ NSO Group is paving a path back Into Trump’s 🇺🇸America.

The 🇮🇱Israeli #spyware maker, still on the US Commerce Department’s “blacklist,” has hired a new lobbying firm with direct ties to the Trump administration.

Here's my investigation for @wired.com.

WIRED @wired.com · Apr 9

The Israeli spyware maker, still on the US Commerce Department’s “blacklist,” has hired a new lobbying firm with direct ties to the Trump administration, a WIRED investigation has found.

Spyware Maker NSO Group Is Paving a Path Back Into Trump’s America

The Israeli spyware maker, still on the US Commerce Department’s “blacklist,” has hired a new lobbying firm with direct ties to the Trump administration, a WIRED investigation has found.

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