Candiru, one of Israel's most secretive hacker-for-hire businesses is being exposed thanks to a sloppy customer:
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Perhaps Uzbekistan's biggest mistake was to set up a test computer, exposed on the internet, that tested its hacking tools against various antivirus systems like Kaspersky. Bartholomew’s team found that computer online and noted that it regularly connected to a single Web address. And here’s where the Uzbekistan government exposed itself: Not only was that address registered in Uzbekistan, but the registrant was the apparent leader of “Military Unit 02616.
Human rights experts have now raised the alarm about Candiru’s customer base and the potential for abuse. Bartholomew and another source with knowledge of the attacks said he discovered Candiru surveillance software was used in“Each of these governments is a serial spyware abuser, and it is painfully predictable that civil society got targeted again,” said John Scott-Railton, a surveillance market researcher at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab.
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