Strategies and resources that writers, journalists, their allies, and their employers can use to defend against online harassment and hate.
Contenidos para personas que apoyan a activistas, periodistas y personas defensoras de derechos humanos en temas de seguridad digital.
Mamfakinch was an award winning news website in Morocco until it was shut down by a series of digital surveillance and computer attacks. We met with Hisham Almiraat, a digital rights activist in Morocco, to find out how this happened and why we need to start thinking about the protection of freedom of press online.
Over the course of our multi-year investigation, we found that Dark Basin likely conducted commercial espionage on behalf of their clients against opponents involved in high profile public events, criminal cases, financial transactions, news stories, and advocacy. This report highlights several clusters of targets. In future reports, we will provide more details about specific clusters of targets and Dark Basin’s activities.
Digital attacks are on the rise globally. These attacks threaten the continuity and effectiveness of democratic actors’ daily operations and, on a larger scale, threaten to undermine the public’s trust in the democratic systems in which these actors operate.