Security researchers say a leading Egyptian opposition politician was targeted with Predator spyware after announcing a president bid.
Citizen Lab saidthat attempts beginning in August to hack former Egpytian lawmaker Ahmed Altantawy involved configuring his phone's connection to the Vodaphone Egypt mobile network to automatically infect it with 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. "It's scary the fact that the government can essentially select anyone on Vodafone Egypt’s network and perhaps other networks for infections and they just flip a switch” and select them for targeting, he said. Marczak said “the most likely scenario here is that, yes, there is this cooperation from from Vodafone.”
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