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Raphael Satter
@raphae.li

Scoop: The Israeli company Discover-Tech -- alleged to be at the center of a vast web of ad tech surveillance -- has been heavily targeting users of Elon Musk's Starlink, sources tell me. www.reuters.com/business/med...

reuters.comEXCLUSIVE: Alleged Israeli spy company heavily targeted Starlink users, sources sayExperts at a digital defense firm recently found that an Israeli ad tech company was heavily targeting users of ​Starlink's satellite internet service in a likely effort to spy on them, according to s...
Raphael Satter
@raphae.li

There's a story about attribution politics nestled in here. Discover-Tech was identified internally by TrendAI as being behind the suspected spying, but Trend chose to refer to it using the codename Shadow-Earth-78 following legal concerns. www.trendaisecurity.com/en-us/resour...

trendaisecurity.comInvasive Ads: The Unconventional Cyber Surveillance Attack Surface | TrendAI (US)TrendAI™ Research analyzed the activities of SHADOW-EARTH-79, an entity abusing the real-time ad-tech bidding process to track and profile individuals in conflict zones, sanctioned states, and other s...
Raphael Satter
@raphae.li

Not the first time @reuters.com has reported on cyber companies watering down attribution. This was us on Palo Alto earlier this year: www.reuters.com/world/china/...

reuters.comEXCLUSIVE: Palo Alto chose not to tie China to hacking campaign for fear of retaliation from Beijing, sources sayPalo Alto Networks opted not to tie China to a global cyberespionage campaign the firm exposed last week over concerns that the cybersecurity company or its clients could face retaliation from Beijing...

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