{"id":11389,"date":"2015-08-23T08:26:16","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T13:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11389"},"modified":"2015-08-23T08:26:16","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T13:26:16","slug":"inside-the-spyware-campaign-against-argentine-troublemakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11389","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Spyware Campaign Against Argentine Troublemakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/firstlook.org\/theintercept\/2015\/08\/21\/inside-the-spyware-campaign-against-argentine-troublemakers-including-alberto-nisman\/\" target=\"_blank\">Inside the Spyware Campaign Against Argentine Troublemakers<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Alberto Nisman, the Argentine prosecutor known\u00a0for doggedly investigating a 1994 Buenos Aires bombing, was targeted by invasive spy software downloaded onto his cellular phone shortly before his mysterious death. The software masqueraded as a confidential document and was intended to infect a Windows computer.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation by\u00a0<i>The Intercept<\/i>\u00a0indicates that this targeting was likely not\u00a0an isolated event. The person or persons behind the attempted monitoring\u00a0appear to have run other surveillance operations involving various locations throughout South America, at least one apparently\u00a0targeting a rabble-rousing Argentine journalist. In the process, they\u00a0created\u00a0at least four\u00a0distinct\u00a0spyware bundles, all communicating with the same server set to receive Nisman\u2019s data. They also left traces showing\u00a0that\u00a0their operations\u00a0were active\u00a0as recently as March, raising the possibility that the online spying continues today.<\/p>\n<p>Nisman (pictured above) made powerful enemies inside and outside of Argentina. In his decade-long investigation into the suicide bombing of a Jewish organization and community center,\u00a0Asociaci\u00f3n Mutual Israelita Argentina, he indicted a top Hezbollah operative and several Iranian officials, including a former president, former intelligence minister, and a former foreign minister. Four days before his death, he accused the president of Argentina, Cristina Fern\u00e1ndez de Kirchner, and her foreign minister, H\u00e9ctor Timerman, of being involved in a criminal conspiracy to let Iranian officials off the hook for the attack. He was called to testify before Congress.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">But the night before he was slated to deliver that testimony, Nisman was found in his apartment dead from a bullet wound to the head. An autopsy ruled his death a suicide. But as details of the police investigation emerged, so did more and more questions into the manner of his demise. There was no suicide note, nor was any\u00a0gunpowder residue found on\u00a0Nisman\u2019s\u00a0hands. A document\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarin.com\/politica\/Documentos-confirman-Nisman-arresto-Cristina_0_1297070348.html\">requesting<\/a>\u00a0the arrest of Kirchner and Timerman was found in\u00a0Nisman\u2019s\u00a0trash. And it seemed much of the evidence had been gathered in a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2015\/07\/20\/death-of-a-prosecutor\">disorganized\u00a0and erratic<\/a>\u00a0manner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside the Spyware Campaign Against Argentine Troublemakers Alberto Nisman, the Argentine prosecutor known\u00a0for doggedly investigating a 1994 Buenos Aires bombing, was targeted by invasive spy software downloaded onto his cellular phone shortly before his mysterious death. The software masqueraded as a confidential document and was intended to infect a Windows computer. An investigation by\u00a0The Intercept\u00a0indicates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8392,2251,8393,8394,462,747,8395,765,5567],"class_list":["post-11389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-alberto-misman","tag-argentina","tag-cristina-fernandez-de-kirchner","tag-hector-timerman","tag-journalism","tag-spyware","tag-suicide","tag-surveillance","tag-the-intercept"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11390,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11389\/revisions\/11390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}