Research Reports Cooper Quintin, Rebekah Brown, and John Scott-Railton. “Something to Remember Us By: Device Confiscated by Russian Authorities Returned with Monokle-Type Spyware Installed,” Citizen Lab Report No. 181, University of Toronto, December 5, 2024. Noura Aljizawi, Siena Anstis, Marcus Michaelsen, Veronica Arroyo, Shaila Baran, Maria Bikbulatova, Gözde Böcü, Camila Franco, Arzu Geybulla, Muetter Iliqud,… Read more »

Director Ronald J. Deibert Professor of Political Science, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy Director email: ron at citizenlab.ca (pgp) Staff and Research Fellows Bahr Abdul Razzak Security Researcher email: bahr at citizenlab.ca (pgp) Mohamed Ahmed Research Assistant email: mohamed.ahmed at citizenlab.ca Noura Al-Jizawi Senior Researcher email: noura at citizenlab.ca Siena Anstis Senior… Read more »

The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto, focusing on research, development, and high-level strategic policy and legal engagement at the intersection of information and communication technologies, human rights, and global security. We use a “mixed methods” approach to research combining practices… Read more »

Researchers at the Information Warfare Monitor uncovered a suspected cyber espionage network of over 1,295 infected hosts in 103 countries. This finding comes at the close of a 10-month investigation of alleged Chinese cyber spying against Tibetan institutions that consisted of fieldwork, technical scouting, and laboratory analysis. Close to 30% of the infected hosts are… Read more »

Nice little profile of Hacktivism, including a very funny picture of Oxblood and a rather menacing picture of ProfD

Read the New York Times article on hacktivism involving Lab member Nart Villeneuve and Prof. Deibert. It was also repeated in the International Herald Tribune, the Straits Times and the Minneapolis-St. Paul StarTribune. (Articles are archived at the Citizen Lab).