phone belonging ayman nour exiled president union egyptian national personnel opposition political group spyware too detect phone egyptian journalist exile host democratic news program according citizen research laboratory report name laboratory digital analysis identified multiple servers associated delivery cytrox spyware area including armenia egypt ellas indonesia madagascar oman saudi arabia serbia governments countries likely among cytrox customers according citizen public learning year large cyber insecurity industry sells offensive tools said senior researcher citizen lab longsighted serious oversight offensive tools used way target dissidents journalists others serious taxonomical efforts address problem horrors keep cytrox limited online footprint received small media coverage company originated startup macedonia recent acquired tal dilian israeli word agency veteran deal worth million forbes reported representative dilian respond request citizen lab cytrox involved surveillance industry alliance predict intellexa founded dilian says offers law enforcement intelligence agencies technological platforms protect communities criminal impersonated popular companies apple fox news instagram linkedin tesla twitter order dupe whoop targets tick malicious links citizen lab researchers two egyptians hacked earlier year received messages whatsapp tried trick clicking appeared legitimate news websites fact malicious domains set deliver cytrox spyware citizen lab nour case became suspicious phone infected commence overheating citizen lab researchers forensically examined finding successfully infected two variants spyware cytrox predator nso group laboratory notified whatsapp raise meta findings prompted company learned person probe according meta report published thursday distinguish take away approximately facebook instagram accounts linked cytrox spying cytrox democratizing access spying techniques said nathaniel gleicher meta head security measure policy building tools manage fake accounts target surveil people enable manner of speaking malware providing clients interested node willing pay