{"id":224137,"date":"2026-02-18T12:39:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-i-literally-felt-naked-angolan-journalist-teixeira-candido-targeted-with-predator-spyware\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T12:39:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:39:23","slug":"angola-i-literally-felt-naked-angolan-journalist-teixeira-candido-targeted-with-predator-spyware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-i-literally-felt-naked-angolan-journalist-teixeira-candido-targeted-with-predator-spyware\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: &#8216;I Literally Felt Naked&#8217; &#8211; Angolan Journalist Teixeira C\u00e2ndido Targeted With Predator Spyware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Angolan journalist and lawyer Teixeira C\u00e2ndido wants to know who targeted him with spyware, and he wants justice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">&#8220;First and foremost, we must seek to find out who the entities are that have acquired these spyware tools,&#8221; C\u00e2ndido told CPJ, as findings published by Amnesty International&#8217;s Security Lab show that a malicious link sent in a WhatsApp message infected his phone with Predator spyware.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The commercially available spyware can provide access to an infected device&#8217;s microphone, camera, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602180124.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angolan journalist and lawyer Teixeira C\u00e2ndido wants to know who targeted him with spyware, and he wants justice. &#8220;First and foremost, we must seek to find out who the entities are that have acquired these spyware tools,&#8221; C\u00e2ndido told CPJ, as findings published by Amnesty International&#8217;s Security Lab show that a malicious link sent in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":224138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680797:943251e4d25337c179016eb4d581017e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,6556,53692,7391,7277,25649,15857,257,8674,254,53693,16083,35973],"class_list":["post-224137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-angolan","tag-candido","tag-felt","tag-journalist","tag-literally","tag-naked","tag-news","tag-predator","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spyware","tag-targeted","tag-teixeira"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680797:943251e4d25337c179016eb4d581017e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}