06.12.2017 - 14:19 [ Times of Israel ]

Israel’s Elbit spyware accused of tracking Ethiopian dissidents

Elbit develops and sells cybersecurity and cyber-intelligence products to and for governments, the military, businesses, academia, and critical infrastructures, among others. The products incorporate a mix of machine learning, big data, graph-based malware analysis, and other technological features that help detect, analyze, and respond to advanced cybersecurity threats…
Targets received emails with links to a malicious website impersonating an online video portal, the report said. When the targets clicked on the link, they were invited to install and download an Adobe Flash update before they could watch a video. The spyware was hidden in that purported update. In other cases, the targets were asked to install a fictitious app called the Adobe PdfWriter to enable them to read a file.