[kictanet] Ethiopian surveillance, powered by Israeli Companies

[kanini mutemi]

Thank you for this Moses. Fascinating finding- "It is interesting to note
how where the Internet shutdowns stopped in the country, surveillance
picked up."

On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 2:28 PM, Mose Karanja via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Hello KICTANet.
>
> The Citizen Lab has published the latest of its investigation on
> surveillance in Ethiopia.
>
> This report describes how Ethiopian dissidents in Kenya, the US, UK, and
> other countries were targeted with emails containing sophisticated
> commercial spyware posing as Adobe Flash updates and PDF plugins.
> Targets include a US-based Ethiopian diaspora media outlet, the Oromia
> Media Network (OMN), a PhD student, and a lawyer. During the course of our
> investigation, one of the authors of this report was also targeted.
> From the Ethiopian lead, several other African countries (Rwanda, Zambia,
> Nigeria etc) have been pinned as using the same product - or at least the
> company has ongoing demonstrations or tutorials.
>
> Ethiopia experienced massive protests across the country last year, the
> bulk of which came from the Oromo Community. It is interesting to note how
> where the Internet shutdowns stopped in the country, surveillance picked
> up.
>
> Read the report here: https://citizenlab.ca/2017/12/
> champing-cyberbit-ethiopian-dissidents-targeted-commercial-spyware/
>
>
>
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