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Stealth Falcon

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Keep Calm and (Don’t) Enable Macros

A New Threat Actor Targets UAE Dissidents

This report describes a campaign of targeted spyware attacks carried out by a sophisticated operator, which we call Stealth Falcon. The attacks have been conducted from 2012 until the present, against Emirati journalists, activists, and dissidents.

May 29, 2016
Targeted Surveillance
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