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British spyware used to target Bahraini activists

25th July 2012

Bloomberg reported today that security researchers have identified FinFisher spyware - "one of the world’s best-known and elusive cyber weapons" - in malicious emails sent to Bahraini pro-democracy activists, including a naturalized U.S. citizen who owns gas stations in Alabama, a London-based human rights activist and a British-born economist in Bahrain. Analysis of the emails by CitizenLab (a project based within the University of Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs) revealed that they…