Showing posts with label Greece. Show all posts
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Sunday, September 24, 2023

From AP:
BOSTON (AP) — A leading Egyptian opposition politician was targeted with spyware multiple times after announcing a presidential bid — including with malware that automatically infects smartphones, security researchers have found. They say Egyptian authorities were likely behind the attempted hacks.

Discovery of the malware last week by researchers at Citizen Lab and Google’s Threat Analysis Group prompted Apple to rush out operating system updates for iPhones, iPads, Mac computers and Apple Watches to patch the associated vulnerabilities.

Citizen Lab said in a blog post that 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.

Prior to that, Citizen Lab said, attempts were made beginning in May to hack Altantawy’s phone with Predator via links in SMS and WhatsApp messages that he would have had to click on to become infected.

Once infected, the Predator spyware turns a smartphone into a remote eavesdropping device and lets the attacker siphon off data.

Given that Egypt is a known customer of Predator’s maker, Cytrox, and the spyware was delivered via network injection from Egyptian soil, Citizen Lab said it had “high confidence” Egypt’s government was behind the attack.
Notice anything missing?

Whenever the media reports on spyware from an Israeli company, they always prominently mention Israel. But when the spyware comes from a different country - in this case, North Macedonia and Hungary - no one says a word.

When Ken Roth was criticized for always mentioning Israel in connection to Pegasus spyware, when it is a private company, he justified that by saying that Israeli export laws allowed the spyware to be sold to countries that are less than paradigms of freedom and democracy. But when it comes to these other companies, the countries that allow them to sell their wares to places like Egypt are not even mentioned in the articles, or by Roth. 

Earlier this year, the US Department of Commerce announced they were blacklisting four spyware firms:

Today, the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) added four entities, Intellexa S.A. in Greece, Cytrox Holdings Crt in Hungary, Intellexa Limited in Ireland, and Cytrox AD in North Macedonia to the Entity List for trafficking in cyber exploits used to gain access to information systems, threatening the privacy and security of individuals and organizations worldwide.
Where were all the anguished articles about how Greece and Hungary and Ireland and North Macedonia were peddling tools to repressive governments to target dissidents?

They were never written. But the New York Times did cover part of this story - by highlighting not the countries that allowed these exports, but the Israeli connection to two of the four companies.


If spyware doesn't come from Israel, or is not connected to Israel, the media's interest in the stories plummets to practically nothing.  

This is the textbook definition of media bias.





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Sunday, July 16, 2023




This video segment from VOA News describes how many Gazans trace their roots to Kurdistan.




Of course, we knew this. There are plenty of Palestinians with the last name "el-Kurd" or "el-Kurdi," and many prominent Palestinian families proudly trace their roots to Arabia or Syria or Morocco or Turkey and everywhere else.



Here is my latest list of Palestinian surnames and where they appear to have originated:

Abbas

Iraq

Abdil-Masih  (Beit Sahour)

Turkey

Abid

Sudan

Abu Aita (Beit Sahour)

Turkey

Abu Ghosh

Europe/11th century

Abu Sitta

Egypt

Abu-Kishk

Egypt

Adwan

Arabia

Afghani 

 Afghanistan

Ajami 

Iran

Al Hafi

Iraq

Alami

Morocco

Alami 

Morocco

Alawi 

 Syria

Al-Hayik (Beit Sahour)

Turkey

Arafat

Syria

Araj

Morocco

Aramsha

Egypt

Arashi

Egypt

Ashrawi

Yemen

Awwad

Egypt

Azd, Azad

 Yemen

Badra

Egypt

Baghdadi 

Iraq

Banna

Egypt

Bannoura

Egypt

Bardawil 

Egypt

Barghouti

Yemen (may be Jewish)

Bushnak 

Bosnia

Chehayber

Turkey

Dajani

Arabia via Spain

Darjani

Arabia

Djazair 

Algeria

Doghmush

Turkey

Erekat

Jordan

Fakiki

Morocco

Faranji

France

Faruqi

Iraq

Fayumi

Egypt

Filali

Morocco

Gharub

Egypt

Ghassan

Lebanon

Haddadin

Yemen

Halabi 

 Syria

Hamis

Bahrain

Hammouda

Transjordan

Hannouneh (Beit Sahour)

Turkey

Hashlamun

Kurdistan

Hijazi 

 Arabia

Hindi 

India

Hourani 

 Syria

Husseini

Arabia

Ibrahim (Beit Sahour)

Turkey

Iraki 

Iraq

Issa

Arrived in 1820s to Haifa, not sure from where

Jabari

Iraq

Jazir

Algiers

Kafisha

Kurdistan

Kanaan

Syria

Khair

Egypt

Khairi

Morocco

Khalil

Arabia

Khamadan

Yemen

Khamati

Syria

Khamis 

 Bahrain

Khazen

Lebanon

Khoury (Beit Sahour)

Turkey

Kukali

Syria

Kurdi 

Kurdistan

Lubnani 

Lebanon

Mahdi

Morocco

Makhamra

Jewish

Marashda

Egypt

Masa'ad

Egypt

Masarwa

Egypt

Maslouhi

Morocco

Masri 

Egypt

Matar

Kuwait

Mattar

 Yemen

Metzarwah

Egypt

Mughrabi, Moghrabi 

Morocco

Murad

Albania/Yemen

Muwaqat

Morocco

Muzaffar

Morocco

Nablusi

Named after Nablus - but that was named in the 7th century

Nammari

Spain

Nashashibi

Kurdish/Turkoman/Syria

Nusseibeh

Arrived 7th Century

Omaya

Arabia

Othman 

 Turkey

Qudwa

Syria

Qurashi

Arabia

Qutob

Morocco

Ridwan

Ottoman

Rishmawi (Beit Sahour)

Turkey

Sa'ad

Egypt

Salibas

Greece

Samahadna

Sudan (maybe)

Saud / Saudi 

Arabia

Shaalan

Egypt

Shakirat

Egypt

Shami 

 Syria

Shamis

Syria

Shashani

Chechnya

Shawish

Arabia

Sidawi

Lebanon

Sous (Beit Sahour)

Turkey

Sultan

Turkey

Surani

Lebanon

Taamari

Arabia

Tachriti

Iraq

Tamimi

Yemen/Egypt/Arabia

Tarabin

Mecca oe Egypt

Tarabulsi 

Lebanon

Tartir

Egypt

Tawil

Egypt

Tayib

Morocco

Tijani

Morocco

Tikriti 

Iraq

Touqan

Northern Arabia or Syria

Turki 

Turkey

Ubayyidi 

 Sudan

Uthman

Turkey

Yacoub (Beit Sahour)

Turkey

Yamani 

Yemen

Zabidat

Egypt

Zaghab

Morocco

Zarqawi

Jordan

Zeitawi

Morocco

Zoabi

Iraq

Zubeidi

Iraq


(h/t Tomer Ilan)



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