Spying with social media

August 4, 2016

Making headlines around the world, the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto’s ‘Citizen Lab’ has revealed a new cyber-espionage operation targeting Syrian dissidents. In the group’s report, outlined in The Washington Post, Political Scientist Ron Deibert, director of the Citizen Lab, described how targets were tricked into opening malicious files and links containing malware capable of monitoring computers and Android phones. The full report and various articles are available on the U of T News website.