Special thanks to David Satter, Raphael Satter, and the Open Society Foundations
for cooperating and providing us with materials necessary to conduct the
investigation.
Thanks to the Citizen Lab team who provided review and assistance, especially Bill
Marczak, Masashi Crete-Nishihata, Etienne Maynier, Adam Senft, Irene Poetranto,
and Amitpal Singh.
We would like to thank additional researchers for comments and feedback
including Jen Weedon, Alberto Fittarelli, Exigent Petrel and TNG.Documents stolen from a prominent journalist and critic of the Russian government were manipulated and then released as a “leak” to discredit domestic and foreign critics of the government. We call this technique “tainted leaks.”Support for Citizen Lab’s research on targeted threats comes from the John D.
and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Open Society Foundations, the Oak
Foundation, Sigrid Rausing Trust, and the Ford Foundation
