Fresh suspicions aroused, he sent a copy of his phone to Citizen Lab, a surveillance industry monitor operating out of the University of Toronto. Citizen Lab confirmed he had been hacked. I can't immediately recall any cases of that happening on a laptop or desktop, either,” said Bill Marczak, researcher at Citizen Lab. Pitchbook and other business databases list security specialist and entrepreneur Rotem Farkash as founder, while LinkedIn and an old website uncovered by Citizen Lab listed the CEO as Ivo Malinkovski. “Exactly who oversees the exports of Predator isn't clear to me,” said Citizen Lab researcher Bill Marczak.

Source: Forbes December 17, 2021 07:56 UTC