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16 shares Al-Jazeera staff work at their TV station in Doha, Qatar, June 8, 2017. (AP Photo/ Malak Harb, File) DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) Dozens of journalists at Al-Jazeera, the Qatari state-owned media company, have been targeted by advanced spyware, in an attack likely linked to the governments of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, a cybersecurity watchdog reported on Sunday. Citizen Lab said it traced malware that infected the personal phones of 36 journalists, producers, anchors, and executives at Al-Jazeera back to the Israel-based NSO Group, which has been widely condemned for selling spyware to repressive governments. Most unnerving to the investigators was that iMessages were infecting targeted cellphones without the users taking any action what’s known as a zero-click vulnerability. Through push notifications alone, the malware instructed the phones to upload their content to servers linked to the NSO Group, Citizen Lab said, turning journalist

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