The Citizen Lab
@citizenlab
The Citizen Lab is an academic research group at @UofT focusing on the intersection of technologies, human rights and global security.
NEW REPORT: Russia's state-backed hackers have a new trick. In collab w/ @Google Threat Intelligence Group, we investigated an attack against prominent Russian expert @KeirGiles & uncovered an elaborate attack targeting App-Specific Passwords (ASPs). citizenlab.ca/2025/06/russia…
New op-ed by @RonDeibert discusses the G7 Leaders’ Statement on countering transnational repression that was put forward last month. Read it in the @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…
Canada 🇨🇦 makes many pledges re: regulating spyware, protecting victims of transnational repression, and protecting human rights. But words must be followed by actions My latest @globeandmail on the G7 Leaders' Statement on Transnational Repression theglobeandmail.com/gift/3d51c5fae…
NEW: #Italy's spyware scandal just deepened. Just days ago, #Italy claimed to not know who targeted Journalist @fcancellato with #Paragon spyware. But now the spyware company is dropping heavy hints that this wasn't the full story👇 x.com/omerbenj/statu…
Paragon says it “offered both the Italian government & parliament a way to determine whether its system had been used against the journalist," but since "Italian authorities chose not to proceed with this solution, Paragon terminated its contracts" haaretz.com/00000197-511f-…
Citizen Lab is still chasing shadows cbc.ca/listen/cbc-pod… @ClickHereShow @CBC
Writing for @policyoptions, the Citizen Lab’s @KateRobertson_ and Song-Ly Tran discuss how Canada’s outdated wiretap laws fail to protect Canadians from spyware abuse. Read it here: policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/juil…
I'm honoured and excited to be delivering a keynote at @BlackHatEvents USA 2025 Come hear about the history of @citizenlab, our investigations into digital threats, and the future of counter-intelligence for civil society! blackhat.com/us-25/briefing…
This new article by the Citizen Lab's Gabby Lim (et al) in @techpolicypress examines the growth of economic power in the hands of private firms “incentivized to serve the surveillance state and further a new kind of space military-industrial complex.” Read it here:…
Why are governments around the world tightening laws on #misinformation? The Citizen Lab’s Gabrielle Lim & co-authors examine the global surge of misinformation legislation in their new article published by @IJoC_USC. Read it here: ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc…
🚨NEW REPORT: exposing a new hacking tactic. 🇷🇺Russian state-backed hackers used an App-Specific Password attack against prominent Russia expert @KeirGiles & others. It's like they know what we all expect from them...and then did the opposite 1/ By us @citizenlab & @google's…
Great thread by my @citizenlab colleague @billmarczak about our latest #Paragon Graphite spyware investigation. Bill's smoking gun discovery led to the first ever attribution of Paragon's Apple spyware.👇
Basically, one of the phones sent multiple requests to IP 46.183.184[.]91, an IP that we linked with high confidence to Paragon’s Graphite spyware infrastructure. We made this link because 46.183.184[.]91 matched our Fingerprint P1 (seen here in Censys search syntax)
There are plenty of reasons to be concerned with Canada's 🇨🇦 new proposed border security legislation Fortunately we have @KateRobertson_ @citizenlab to untangle them. See below for the extended analysis 🔽
NEW today from myself @citizenlab, on the unspoken implications of Canada's Bill C-2 for data-sharing with the United States and other foreign countries: citizenlab.ca/2025/06/a-prel…
🚨NEW INVESTIGATION: We just forensically unmasked #Paragon's Apple spyware. Zero-click targets: Journalists. In 🇪🇺Europe. Like 🇮🇹Italian reporter @ciropellegrino. Reopen's #Italy's spyware scandal. Follows our @citizenlab investigation of their Android spyware. 1/
Thanks to @gijn @RowanPhilp for profiling my new book "Chasing Shadows" and the work of @citizenlab 👇
💫 NEW! A new book by @RonDeibert, @citizenlab’s founder and director, details how his small investigative team is fighting back against a rapidly growing commercial espionage industry. More: twp.ai/4ioSG7
Here's the video of my discussion @torontolibrary about my new book "Chasing Shadows" with the awesome @NahlahAyed and @cbcideas youtu.be/EefmUadYERw?fe… via @YouTube
NEW REPORT: Our forensic analysis confirms ✅ two more European journalists targeted with Paragon's Graphite spyware. Read it here: citizenlab.ca/2025/06/first-…
NEW: Italy admits hacking activists with #Paragon spyware. Blow to the reputation of a mercenary spyware company that marketed itself as an ethically clean anti-NSO. But the official investigation doesn't answer a big mystery that's bad for #Italy & Paragon 1/.. By @omerbenj
Circumventing internet censorship in Indonesia is growing more challenging. The Citizen Lab’s @irenepoet examines Indonesia’s use of DNS redirection to censor online content and discusses its impact on free expression in her new essay published by @CarnegieEndow. Read it here:…
