Over 50 domains-traps were used for its dispersion Predator monitoring software on Smartphones of unsuspecting visitors
Νdata for companies that connect the Greek state with the company that trades the monitoring software. News of the multi-faceted surveillance system calls for answers from the government, which continues to cloud the waters.
The Inside story returns with new data for companies that connect the Greek state with the company that trades the monitoring software.
Η Inside Story journalistic research rests on her first KRIKEL and the contracts with the Greek State from 2020 which have not been posted as they fall under the secret supplies.
The information from journalistic research added to Google's revelation that Greece is among the countries that have procured the "predator" and the government spokesman claims that the Greek government and state services did not and do not have any kind of transaction with anyone involved in production and distribution of this software.
His multi-page report Inside story reveals the link that connects it Krikel to Intellexa, a company associated with monitoring software. According to the report, this is the Cypriot one ENEROSS HOLDINGS LTD, which, at least until September 6, 2021, remained its sole partner KRIKEL.
The investigation shows that the manager, for a while, of KRIKEL also appears in the company BAYWEST BUSINESS (HELLAS). In this company on its first board of directors is a person who from March 31, 2020 to June 23, 2021 was appointed deputy consultant and manager in INTELLEXA, APOLLO TECHNOLOGIES and HERMES TECHNOLOGIES (predator related companies).
A grid of dozens of domains that day by day grow and exceed 43, which had already been identified by META (facebook), reveals his research inside story with the help of two specialized technicians.
According to the research of specialized technicians on his behalf inside story, the hitherto known domains-traps that have been purchased amount to 50, seven more than the 43 we learned on December 16 when the META survey was released. They are part of the total 310 websites found by facebook parent company - this is a percentage of almost the total 15%, which seems to have been set up for Greek-speaking purposes.
Except blogspot.edolio5.com, who infected the journalist's cell phone Thanasis Koukakis (and was not on the META list), we are revealing today six more websites that look like well-known Greek and were also registered to trap unsuspecting mobile phones: In the list of fake domains, first place by far are variants of well-known news websites such as kathimerini.news, protothema.live, efsyn.online, tovima.live (more than half of a total of 50 websites). Several domains similar to those of vehicle manufacturers were also used as bait, e.g. nissan.gr [.] com, bmw.gr [.] com and suzuki.gr [.] com. The directory also lists some geographically focused websites, such as orchomenos.news, the politics [.] bid (looks like politikalesvos [.] gr) and stonisi [.] news.
In the network of fake domains there are several that refer to well-known service providers, such as Viva (viva [.] gr [.] com), Cosmote (ebill [.] cosmote [.] center), Uber (ube [.] gr [.] com) and youtube (youtube [.] gr [.] live).
What is Predator
The Predator software was developed by a small and almost unknown start up company in Northern Macedonia, called Cytrox. This malware "infects" the target cell phone and anyone who controls it can access the device's messages, but also listen to the user's conversations. The company has long had government customers in various parts of the world.
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