Står det ”Vänligen vänta” när du försöker logga in på internetbanken via dator? Då bör du se upp – din dator kan vara smittad av ett virus som försöker stjäla dina inloggningsuppgifter. – Avbryt inloggningen omedelbart, uppmanar Janina Pfalzer på Nordea.Nu varnas det för att  ett nygammalt datorvirus åter börjat sprida sig i Norden. Virusets syfte är att få tillgång till lösenord och andra uppgifter från kunder som använder internetbank.Varnar i förväg– Det är vår säkerhetsavdelning som fått signaler om att viruset TrickBot hade börjat cirkulera igen med inriktning på bankkunder i norden. Och denna gång bestämde vi oss för att vara proaktiva och gå ut med en varning innan några kunder hunnit bli drabbade, och hittills har det fungerat,  berättar Janina Pfalzer, pressekreterare på Nordea för SVT Nyheter.

In the past five years it has become increasingly clear that civil society is under threat from the misuse of powerful spyware tools exclusively sold to governments. Research has repeatedly shown how governments around the world use digital spying tools designed for criminal investigations and counterintelligence to target journalists, human rights defenders, and others.In August 2016, Citizen Lab released a report uncovering how United Arab Emirates (UAE) activist Ahmed Mansoor was targeted with “Pegasus” (sophisticated government-exclusive spyware) and “The Trident” (a chain of iOS zero day exploits) designed to infect his iPhone 6 via a malicious link in an SMS text message.

We attributed Pegasus and The Trident exploit chain to an Israel-based “cyber warfare” company, NSO Group.In February 2017 Citizen Lab, with assistance of Mexican non-governmental organizations (NGOs) R3D and SocialTic, documented how Mexican government food scientists, health, and consumer advocates also received links to infrastructure that we connected to NSO Group.

We suspect that the links were designed to install Pegasus on their phones.This report expands the Mexican investigation and shows how 10 Mexican journalists and human rights defenders, one minor child, and one United States citizen, were targeted with NSO’s Exploit Framework. Our investigation was conducted with the collaboration and assistance of R3D, SocialTic and Article 19. With their assistance, we have confirmed over 76 additional messages containing NSO exploit links. They are co-publishing an extensive investigation (in Spanish).

A couple of weeks ago, at Trump Tower, on the same spot where Donald Trump announced his Presidential bid, Eric Danziger, the C.E.O. of Trump Hotels, formally launched a new line of three-star hotels, called American Idea, whoch will cater to lower-income, rural areas of the country. It was the most blatant instance yet of the Trump family’s profiting from its political power—in this case, by shifting from its long-standing focus on luxury markets in order to make money from the very demographic that put Trump in the White House. Within the hotel industry, the event raised eyebrows for another reason: it was unbelievably haphazard. Danziger, though a veteran of the industry, had almost nothing to show his audience. There was no Web site or marketing material, and the logo was just the brand name and a crudely drawn picture of a light bulb. (A company representative told me that she wasn’t sure if it was the final logo or a work in progress.)