Citizen Lab uncovers a 14-week campaign in Angola using AI-generated personas, deceptive posts, and a phantom news site to revamp state messaging.

In this research note, we examine the digital infrastructure of BlackCore, an Israeli influence-for-hire company. We describe how we identified a BlackCore campaign consisting of a training program pr...

French PR firm Havas Media, which runs the lion’s share of Israel’s FARA-registered foreign influence work in the U.S., appears to have stood up an “institute” aimed at feeding LLMs positive informati...

Our latest threat report examines how malicious actors combine AI models with websites and social platforms—and what it means for detection and defense.

We found that former Member of the European Parliament Stelios Kouloglou was hacked with Pegasus spyware while serving on the PEGA committee, which investigated Pegasus and other spyware abuses in Eur...

We found that former Member of the European Parliament Stelios Kouloglou was hacked with Pegasus spyware while serving on the PEGA committee, which investigated Pegasus and other spyware abuses in Eur...

If a hostile state ran this sort of operation to swing our vote, we'd call it foreign interference. It's time we did.

Like a spy movie: Researchers from HPI and the University of Toronto reveal how surveillance actors exploit mobile networks to track people worldwide.

Two decades after conning New Zealand media outlets, Jake Sanders has re-emerged in Asia as a geopolitical commentator, media executive, ordained priest and the ‘Knight Commander’ of a religious order...

A network of at least 123 websites operated from within the People’s Republic of China while posing as local news outlets in 30 countries across Europe, Asia, and Latin America, disseminates pro-Beiji...

Our official statement to the digital rights community about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia

Our official statement to the digital rights community about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia

Tim Cook was a great CEO, but he didn’t crack AI.  It’s job number 1 for John Ternus.

Sorry, Apple, Google, and OpenAI, Palantir’s billionaire boss, Alex Karp, says a job at his AI firm is the “best credential in tech.”

Intelligence agencies of Viktor Orbán's government have been secretly using Webloc — a mass surveillance tool that tracks hundreds of millions of people via smartphone advertising data — making Hungary the first confirmed EU country to deploy it, in likely violation of GDPR. Moreover, our investigation confirms the existence of "homegrown" OSINT and spyware tools.

Italian authorities are making progress in their investigation into a wide-ranging spyware scandal in Italy involving Paragon spyware. But the mystery of who hacked two Italian journalists with Parago...

It's hypocritical for the President to pretend to care about foreign actors influencing US elections, writes Paul M. Barrett.

Nigel Farage's populist Reform UK party secured a second big donation from ​crypto investor Christopher Harborne, helping it raise more money than its rivals last ‌year in a sign that business donors ...

An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.

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Following the widely-condemned arrest in July 2025 of prominent Kenyan opposition voice Boniface Mwangi, the Citizen Lab analyzed artefacts from devices seized during the arrest. We found that Cellebr...

The world is looking to Canada for reassurance that a stable multicultural democracy is not only possible but desirable.

Through a multi-year investigation, we find that the Jordanian security apparatus has deployed forensic extraction products manufactured by Cellebrite against civil society devices. We release these f...

Founded by Keir Starmer’s comms chief, Portland helps rich clients ‘protect their reputation’ – with a shady, off-the-books service