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Italian prosecutors confirm journalist was hacked with Paragon spyware
Italian authorities confirmed that a journalist who was alerted by WhatsApp last year of a suspected spyware attack…
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Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras
Brian Merchant, writing for Blood in the Machine, reports that people across the United States are dismantling and…
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Cellebrite cut off Serbia citing abuse of its phone unlocking tools. Why not others?
Last year, the phone hacking tool maker Cellebrite announced it had suspended Serbian police as customers, after human…
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Intellexa’s Predator spyware used to hack iPhone of journalist in Angola, research says
A government customer of sanctioned spyware maker Intellexa hacked the phone of a prominent journalist in Angola, according…
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Hacktivist scrapes over 500,000 stalkerware customers’ payment records
A hacktivist has scraped more than half-a-million payment records from a provider of consumer-grade “stalkerware” phone surveillance apps,…
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Hacked, leaked, exposed: Why you should never use stalkerware apps
There is a whole shady industry for people who want to monitor and spy on their families. Multiple…
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Here’s the tech powering ICE’s deportation crackdown
President Donald Trump said he would make countering immigration one of his flagship policies during his second term…
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Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects’ laptops: Reports
Microsoft provided the FBI with the recovery keys to unlock encrypted data on the hard drives of three…
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Critics pan spyware maker NSO’s transparency claims amid its push to enter US market
NSO Group, one of the most well-known and controversial makers of government spyware, released a new transparency report…
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You’ve been targeted by government spyware. Now what?
It was a normal day when Jay Gibson got an unexpected notification on his iPhone. “Apple detected a…