The Madagascar government likely used the Cytrox-developed Predator spyware to conduct political domestic surveillance ahead of the country’s presidential election, according to research by Sekoia.
French threat intelligence firm Sekoia’s latest technical analysis of Cytrox’s infrastructure was prompted by recent revelations that Predator had been installed on the iPhone of the former Egyptian MP Ahmed Eltantawy.
Citizen Lab, a tech research laboratory based at the University of Toronto, found that in August and September 2023, Eltantawy was targeted via network-based injection, redirecting him to malicious web pages when he visited non-HTTPS sites by exploiting a zero-day exploit chain (CVE-2023-41991, CVE-2023-41992, CVE-2023-41993) used to install Predator on iOS versions up to 16.6.1.
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