BOSTON (AP) — A leading Egyptian opposition politician was targeted with spyware after announcing a presidential bid, security researchers reported Friday. They said Egyptian authorities were likely behind the attempted hack. Discovery of the attempt last week by researchers at Citizen Lab and Google’s Threat Analysis Group prompted Apple to rush out operating system updates for iPhones, iPads, Mac computers and Apple Watches to patch the associated vulnerabilities. Citizen Lab said in a blog po
Citizen Lab saidthat recent attempts to hack former Egyptian lawmaker Ahmed Altantawy involved configuring his connection to the Vodaphone Egypt mobile network to automatically infect his devices with the Predator spyware if he visited certain websites not using the secure HTTPS protocol.
Once infected, the Predator spyware turns a smartphone into a remote eavesdropping device and lets the attacker siphon off data. Altantawy did not immediately respond to a request for comment on being targeted by the alleged spyware, nor did Egyptian officials. "We didn’t see any evidence of a successful hack, but we did note that he had in lockdown mode,” said Marczak.
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