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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 563

Raphael Satter

Illustrative: Hacker using laptop on abstract binary code map background. (Peshkov/ iStock, by Getty Images)
April 16, 2025, 12:44 am
US lawyer says UK intel firm paid Israeli hacker to target him during court battle
Daniel Feldman says Vantage Intelligence hired Aviram Azari, convicted in an earlier hacking case, to intercept private conversations with his lawyer, tipping trial in opponents’ favor
By Raphael Satter
The smartphone apps DeepSeek page is seen on a smartphone screen in Beijing, January 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
January 30, 2025, 6:41 am
Sensitive data from DeepSeek exposed to web, warns Israeli-founded cyber firm
Wiz CTO says the Chinese AI startup quickly secured the breach ‘but this was so simple to find we believe we’re not the only ones who found it’
By Raphael Satter
Passengers walk at Heathrow Airport, in London, May 27, 2023. (AP/Kin Cheung)
May 10, 2024, 8:01 am
Israeli PI mistakenly freed by UK after arrest over alleged hack-for-hire scheme
Amit Forlit’s whereabouts unknown after procedural issue leads to no-show at court hearing; private eye accused of being paid to gather information about Argentinian debt crisis
By Raphael Satter
Ali AlAhmed poses for a photograph in his office Friday, Oct. 26, 2018, in Washington (AP /Alex Brandon)
May 14, 2019, 9:20 am
Iran-linked disinformation effort had a personal touch
Fake female accounts used to lure men into spreading phony stories, including claim that former defense minister Liberman was Russian spy
By Raphael Satter
Keir Giles, a Russia specialist with Britain’s Chatham House think tank, poses for a photo in central London on Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
April 17, 2019, 8:09 pm
Israeli firm Black Cube denies link to spy targeting Kaspersky Lab critics
Man identifying himself as Lucas Lambert has been meeting with cybersecurity experts, in an operation resembling one by a so-called Michel Lambert, outed as an Israeli ex-spy
By Raphael Satter
A man who identified himself as Michel Lambert but whose real name is Aharon Almog Assoulin and was linked in investigations by Channel 12's Uvda program and AP with an alleged undercover operation targeting critics of the Israeli tech firm NSO Group, seen in a screen capture from AP video footage. (AP Photo/Joseph Frederick)
February 28, 2019, 4:46 am
Court filing links exposed spy to Israel’s Black Cube
Canadian attorney says he appears to have been targeted by a recently unmasked undercover operative, drawing line between the man and the private intelligence firm
By Raphael Satter and Aron Heller
A man who identified himself as Michel Lambert but whose real name is Aharon Almog Assoulin and was linked in investigations by Channel 12's Uvda program and AP with an alleged undercover operation targeting critics of the Israeli tech firm NSO Group, seen in a screen capture from AP video footage. (AP Photo/Joseph Frederick)
February 11, 2019, 9:52 am
Exposed Israeli spy linked to apparent effort by NSO Group to derail lawsuits
AP investigation uncovers alleged sprawling undercover bid by Israeli firm, which is under fire for its spyware sales to foreign governments
By Raphael Satter
John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at the Citizen Lab, an internet watchdog group, holds his cell phone which has its camera blocked by an adhesive sticker, as he poses for a photograph on Jan. 17, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
January 26, 2019, 3:28 am
Researchers who found Israeli link to Khashoggi murder face ‘sinister’ targeting
Men posing as investors lured Citizen Lab employees into meetings to quiz them on the cyber watchdog’s recent exposés regarding Israeli surveillance software firm NSO Group
By Raphael Satter
French riot police take position in front of "yellow vest" protesters on the Champs-Elysees in Paris, on December 15, 2018. (Valery Hache/AFP)
December 15, 2018, 12:02 pm
Heavy police presence in Paris ahead of ‘yellow vest’ protests
Shops along the iconic Champs-Elysees board up windows after last week’s demonstrations included extensive looting and vandalism; 8,000 police officers deployed in French capital
By Raphael Satter
Illustrative image of a hacker, via Shutterstock.
December 13, 2018, 2:30 pm
Iranian hackers go after nuclear workers, US officials and think tanks
AP investigation unearths ongoing attempts from within Iran to target diverse groups, from Arab scientists to US defense contractors to Iranian environmentalists
By Raphael Satter
Ali AlAhmed poses for a photograph in his office Friday, Oct. 26, 2018, in Washington (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
November 9, 2018, 11:08 am
Fake journalists impersonated Khashoggi and BBC, tried to hack Saudi critic
Ali AlAhmed believes Riyadh is behind repeated, elaborate attempts to gain access to his private information through deception and cyberespionage
By Raphael Satter
In this image released on October 4, 2018, hacking equipment belonging to four Russian officers of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, GRU, is seen on April 13, 2018. (Dutch Defense Ministry via AP)
October 4, 2018, 5:46 pm
US indicts 7 Russian spies over hacking as West blasts Moscow cybercrimes
Justice Department accuses GRU officers of breaching anti-doping agencies, Pennsylvania nuclear energy company, and chemical weapons investigator
By Gregory Katz, Raphael Satter and LORNE COOK
Ecuador's Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino, left, and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speak during a news conference inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, August 18, 2014. (John Stillwell/Pool Photo via AP)
September 17, 2018, 3:30 pm
Aided by Holocaust denier, Julian Assange sought Russian visa in 2010
Wikileaks founder gave instructions to embassy in London that documents be handled by his friend, fringe intellectual Israel Shamir
By Raphael Satter
The logo of the Israeli NSO Group company on a building in Herzliya, Israel, August 25, 2016. (AP Photo/ Daniella Cheslow)
September 1, 2018, 6:06 am
Lawsuit lays bare use of Israel-made hacking tools in Mideast, Mexico
Qatari journalist who alleges his phone was hacked using software from NSO Group says he hopes suit will lead to restrictions on trade of such technology
By Raphael Satter
A woman walks toward the Russian Orthodox Church headquarters in the St. Daniel Monastery in Moscow, Russia, Aug. 3, 2018. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
August 27, 2018, 3:45 pm
Russian US election hackers targeted Orthodox patriarch, Ukrainian Jewish leader
As Kiev and Moscow fight over the religious future of Ukraine, spies went after Jewish leader Yosyp Zisels who frequently defends his country from charges of anti-Semitism
By Raphael Satter
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