Thomas Brewster reports:
Over at least the last two years, a group of government hackers has been targeting supposedly secured email services from the likes of Google, Yahoo, Protonmail and Tutanota. Most targets are in the Middle East and Africa and, though it remains unclear just where the hackers themselves hail from, the attacks appear to have been ordered by a nation state in the Gulf region.
That’s according to nonprofit Amnesty International, which warned that many of the targets, likely numbering upwards of 1,000, were human rights defenders and journalists operating in the affected regions.
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