Fake escort services and Mothers' Day cards: Israeli-owned Intellexa spyware targets and exploits journalists in Angola

02:00 - 18 Feb 2026

An investigation reveals that the Israeli-owned Intellexa spyware was used to hack the head of Angola's journalists union as he was fighting the regime's surveillance of reporters. Fake news sites mimicking Angolan media were part of a broader campaign, Amnesty finds