Dennis Fisher talks with Ron Deibert of the University of Toronto and Citizen Lab about his group’s research into cyber espionage campaigns, the surveillance landscape and his recent book, Black Code.
Dennis Fisher talks with Ron Deibert of the University of Toronto and Citizen Lab about his group’s research into cyber espionage campaigns, the surveillance landscape and his recent book, Black Code.
The “People Nearby” feature in the secure messaging app can be abused to unmask a user’s precise location, a researcher said.
Examining the backdoor’s DNS communications led researchers to find a government agency and a big U.S. telco that were flagged for further exploitation in the spy campaign.
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