Darknet Diaries

By Jack Rhysider

Predator

S1 E137

Published September 05, 2023 2:00am

A new type of mercenary spyware came on the radar called Predator. It’ll infect a mobile phone, and then suck up all the data from it. Contacts, text messages, location, and more. This malware is being sold to intelligence agencies around the world.




In this episode we hear from Crofton Black at Lighthouse Reports who spent 6 months with a team of journalists researching this story which was published here: https://www.lighthousereports.com/investigation/flight-of-the-predator/.




We also hear from Bill Marczak and John Scott-Railton from Citizen Lab.

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