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Ethiopian Dissidents targeted with commercial spyware

概要

This report describes how Ethiopian dissidents in the US, UK, and other countries were targeted with emails containing sophisticated commercial spyware posing as Adobe Flash updates and PDF plugins. Targets include a US-based Ethiopian diaspora media outlet, the Oromia Media Network (OMN), a PhD student, and a lawyer. During the course of our investigation, one of the authors of this report was also targeted.

Created: 2026-02-23

Indicators

• domain - pupki.co -
• FileHash-MD5 - 840c4299f9cd5d4df46ee708c2c8247c -
• URL - http://eastafro.net/~cnwefplr/Mail.inbox00486/ -
• FileHash-MD5 - 376f28fb0aa650d6220a9d722cdb108d -
• URL - http://www.getadobeplayer.com/~cnwefplr/Mail.inbox00486 -
• domain - flashpoint-ip.com -
• domain - getadobeplayer.com -
• URL - http://getadobeplayer.com/~cnwefplr/Mail.inbox00486/ -
• email - benwiseman99@gmail.com -
• hostname - www.getadobeplayer.com -
• domain - time-local.com -
• email - danwiseman99@gmail.com -
• FileHash-MD5 - 8d6ce1a256acf608d82db6539bf73ae7 -
• FileHash-MD5 - 568d8c43815fa9608974071c49d68232 -
• FileHash-MD5 - 961730964fd76c93603fb8f0d445c6f2 -
• domain - time-local.net -
• FileHash-MD5 - 80b7121c4ecac1c321ca2e3f507104c2 -
• domain - eastafro.net -

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