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Hi and welcome to Malicious Life in collaboration with Cyberism. I'm Ran Levy.

You know, I always open the episodes with this line in collaboration with the Cyberism.

Well, two days ago, this collaboration thing became very useful in a rather surprising way.

If you were to read the Wall Street Journal on June 25th,

you'd come across an interesting headline about something called Operation

Soft Cell. I know what you're thinking. Tainted love, right? Soft Cell were an English New Wave duo that were pretty successful

when I was a kid in the 1980s. That was a long time ago, sure, but hey Freddie Mercury is back in fashion these days, so maybe they're having a comeback.

No, that's not it. The cell in this soft cell stands for cell phones and Operation Soft Cell is a very dramatic discovery

announced just a few days ago by Lio Dive, Cyber's CEO and co-founder.

This discovery, as I noted earlier, made headlines in many major publications around the world.

Since I've been working with Cyberism on this podcast for a few years now and interviewed many of their

researchers on various occasions, it gave me the opportunity to give you the listeners a rare inside look on how this discovery came to be

from the actual people who made it. Let's jump right in.

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