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Even Small Nations Have Jumped into the Cyber Espionage Game While the media tends to focus on the Big 5 nation-state cyber powers, commercial spyware has given smaller countries sophisticated capabilities, as demonstrated by a zero-click iMessage exploit that targeted journalists last year. Driven by the accessibility of commercial spyware and surveillance tools, sophisticated attacks using a variety of zero-click exploits attacks that don t require user interaction are increasingly within the reach of smaller nations, according to The Citizen Lab, an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at University of Toronto. In an analysis published in late December, the group detailed how nations of the Gulf Cooperative Council (GCC) in the Middle East used the commercial Pegasus spyware sold by the NSO Group to hack three dozen phones and spy on journalists and news producers. The attacks used a zero-click iMessage exploit that u

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