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The NSO Group and the Weaponization of WhatsApp

May 21, 2019

Dylan Ramshaw

    On 13 May, WhatsApp notified Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), the messaging app’s lead regulator in the European Union, of a “serious security vulnerability” on its platform.  The following day, European regulators confirmed they were investigating into the breach as a violation of privacy regulations. In a statement, the DPC said it “understands that the vulnerability may have enabled a malicious actor to install unauthorized software and gain access to personal data on devices which have WhatsApp installed.”…

Witchcraft and Warfare
: Joseph Kony and the Lords Resistance Army

April 16, 2019

Chawahir Yussuf

      Magic and ritual in African societies predate the spread of Christianity and Islam in the continent. What is seen as magic and ritual, has it roots in traditional African religions. Additionally, it is the consequences of colonialism and Christian mercenaries, that traditional African practices which contradicted the fabrics of western culture was condemned. What differentiates traditional African religions and practices is the belief that one can manipulate the supernatural to have a direct effect on the material…

Whatsapp
: Disinformation, Misinformation & Malware

March 15, 2018

Ahmed Hassan

  At the end of 2017, I travelled through East Africa to meet several officials to discuss how Grey Dynamics can deploy our solutions with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISON) among others. On the first stop of my trip I met up with an old friend—a close advisor to the President of Somalia—in Nairobi, Kenya. After some pleasantries, the conversations went into—as it often does—politics. He presented me with a meme of a notorious foreign intelligence official donating…