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Hack-for-hire: new report investigates hacking campaign against Egyptian journalists
- Occurred
- Apr 8, 2026
- Published
- Apr 8, 2026
- Source
- Access Now
Summary
A new report by Access Now’s Digital Security Helpline, Espionage for repression: forensic analysis of a cross-border hack-for-hire campaign targeting civil society in MENA, exposes a hack-for-hire campaign targeting two prominent Egyptian journalists and government critics, Mostafa Al-A’sar and Ahmed Eltantawy, through a series of spear-phishing attacks. The post Hack-for-hire: new report investigates hacking campaign against Egyptian journalists appeared first on Access Now.
Tags
- hacking
- Spear Phishing
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Unauthorized surveillance and data collection targeting journalists constitutes a serious privacy and security violation.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8