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Digital safety for journalists
Surveillance, data storage capabilities and digital attack technologies are becoming more sophisticated, less expensive and more pervasive, making journalists increasingly vulnerable to digital attacks from both state and Non-state actors.

In a number of states across multiple regions, broadly defined legislative acts have been seen by some as working to silence digital dissent, prosecute whistle blowers and expand arbitrary surveillance across multiple digital platforms.

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- Stealth Falcon

- Signals Intelligence Agency

- Ahmed Mansoor

= Project Raven =

Project Raven was a U.A.E cyber-intelligence project where US contractors lead way for the government to surveil human rights activists, journalists and dissidents among others.

The project was initially managed by the USA-based cybersecurity contractor CyberPoint and HackingTeam but in 2016 it was moved to the UAE cybersecurity firm named DarkMatter

Claims of terrorism defense
Through the hiring process the contractors were informed they would be helping the UAE government in defensive capabilities such as the prevention of terrorism attacks, but turned out intead as an offensive mission for political targeting.

Targets
Reportedly, one of the purposes of the goals of the investigation was to discover proof that Qatar's royal family had influenced media coverage by Al Jazeera and other outlets.


 * Ahmed Mansoor, an Emirati Human Rights activist.
 * Mehmet Simsek, the former Turkish deputy prime minister
 * several other US journalists

Use of Karma spyware
Karma is a commercial spyware made that exploited vulnerabilties in iPhones that allowed remote access without any interaction from the user. The vulnerability resided in Apple's iMessage.