The malicious software known as MOONSHINE and BADBAZAAR can infiltrate the microphones and cameras of devices, collecting messages, photos, and location data, which permits users to be surveilled in real time without their awareness, according to the CTA report.

In a piece for the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, Emile Dirks and Diana Fu argue that the U.S.’s pull back from its liberal-minded engagements in China “poses an imminent challenge to Canada: how to curb Beijing’s foreign interference...

In our first investigation into Israel-based spyware company, Paragon Solutions, we begin to untangle multiple threads connected to the proliferation of Paragon's mercenary spyware operations across the globe. This report includes an infrastructure analysis of Paragon’s spyware product, called...

Join us on March 24, 2025, for a virtual presentation and Q&A on the gendered dimension of digital transnational repression. The Citizen Lab’s Siena Anstis, Noura Aljizawi, and Marcus Michaelsen will share key findings from their December 2024 report,...

China’s DeepSeek AI chatbot has raised serious privacy concerns. Speaking with Kevin Collier at NBC News, The Citizen Lab’s director, Ron Deibert, remarks that the privacy problems regarding DeepSeek are not limited to Chinese platforms, and that personal information...

Key findings We analyzed RedNote on Android and iOS for network security issues and found that all versions of RedNote fetch viewed images and videos over HTTP, which enables network eavesdroppers to learn exactly what content users are browsing....

RightsCon, the world’s leading summit on human rights in the digital age, is just around the corner and will be held in Taipei, Taiwan and online from February 24–27, 2025.  Researchers from The Citizen Lab are scheduled to speak...

The Information Controls Fellowship Program (ICFP) from the Open Technology Fund (OTF) fosters research, outputs, and creative collaboration on repressive Internet censorship and surveillance issues. We welcome proposals from fellowship candidates for research projects related to our current thematic...

In this episode of Zoom In Zoom Out on TaiwanPlus, Rebekah Brown, senior researcher at The Citizen Lab, speaks with reporter Herel Hughes to unpack the alarming rise of commercial spyware and its misuse across the globe.

Ron Deibert and Noura Aljizawi join CBC chief correspondent Adrienne Arsenault to discuss the growing issue of foreign governments’ threats and intimidation targeting exiled women activists and dissidents living in Canada.

Explore the evolution of cyberattacks targeting the Tibetan community, revealing how threat actors advanced from basic intrusions to sophisticated social engineering. This analysis sheds light on adaptive tactics, evolving threats, and their broader implications.

(TibetanReview.net, Nov26’24) –It is not just social media but news websites as well that China or pro-China or China-hired digital PR elements are using to spread Communist Party of China propaganda in cyberspace under the guise of telling authentic...

We analyze the system Amazon deploys on the US “amazon.com” storefront to restrict shipments of certain products to specific regions. We found 17,050 products that Amazon restricted from being shipped to at least one world region. - While many...

We know that Chinese apps like WeChat are notorious for extensively carrying out censorship and surveillance on users

-by The Record, 13 November 2024 A China-linked state hacker group has compromised Tibetan media and university websites in a new espionage campaign, researchers have found — part of a series of attacks targeting the Tibetan community in order...

Delhi: The Department of Education (DoE), CTA, organised a one-day “Upskilling in Technology” workshop for the School Principals and Head-teachers of Tibetan Children’s Village (TCV) Schools on 9 November 2024, at the TCV Youth Hostel in Delhi. The event...

微信是一款具有多种功能的应用程序。之前，我们研究了小程序的隐私问题及其监视以及审查文本和图像消息。本研究重点研究微信的网络加密协议及其安全性。

微信有超過十億每月活躍使用者，我們分析了微信使用的主要網路協定 MMTLS 的安全和隱私特性，並發佈了首篇公開的研究報告。

微信是一個具有許多功能的應用程式。之前我們研究過圍繞小程式的隱私問題，以及微信對文字和圖片訊息的監視及審查。在這項研究中，我們主要關注微信的網路加密協定及其安全性。

Research FAQ for the full report "Should We Chat, Too? Security Analysis of WeChat’s MMTLS Encryption Protocol"

This report performs the first public analysis of MMTLS, the main network protocol used by WeChat, an app with over one billion users. The report finds that MMTLS is a modified version of TLS, however some of the modifications...

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The Citizen Lab’s Emile Dirks will present at the upcoming APSA 2024 Annual Meeting & Exhibition as part of a panel discussing how autocrats and aspiring autocrats capture social institutions and stifle counter-mobilization. At the event, Dirks will present...

(TibetanReview.net, Aug24’24) – In what is seen as an overture to China, Nepal has lifted on Aug 22 a ban it imposed nine months ago on the popular social media app TikTok ostensibly because its Chinese owners, ByteDance, agreed...

The findings show Beijing’s attempts to sway public opinion, particularly among youth, experts say.