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Al-Araby
Al-Araby
As human rights activists throughout the Middle East are taking to digital spaces to organise resistance, authoritarian regimes are “hacking down” on dissent with spyware technology. Last year, the Israeli spyware companyNSO Group was caught red-handed in the hacking of a Saudi activist’s phone. The women’s rights activist,Loujain Al-Hathloul, and security researchers were alerted to the use of NSO’s sophisticated spyware, Pegasus, by a glitch on her phone. The details of the hacking discovery werereported for the first time by The WIRE this past February, leading to renewed attention on the a…