Cybersecurity incident — 2019-10-03 00:00:00
Affected organization: Ragia Omran
Affected country: Egypt
Industry: Other Services (except Public Administration)
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Political-Espionage
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined

The Egyptian government installed mobile apps on targets' phones to extract files, track their locations, and identify contacts. One of the targets is Ragia Omran, a lawyer and human rights activist.