Spyware

Italian spyware targets Apple, Android phones — Google

Google's report said the RCS spyware it uncovered, and which was dubbed "Hermit", is the same one that Lookout reported on previously.

Israeli police admit using spyware without warrant to target citizens

Israel's police, accused by rights groups of using notorious Pegasus hacking spyware, find evidence pointing to improper use of sophisticated spyware by its force to snoop on citizens' phones.

Google disrupts 'Russian botnet' that hijacked 1M devices

The tech giant says the network used to surreptitiously mine bitcoin and was cut off at least for now from the people wielding it on the internet.

Apple sues Israel's NSO firm, calls it 'amoral 21st-century mercenaries'

Lawsuit filed against NSO Group and its parent company OSY Technologies for alleged surveillance and targeting of Apple iPhones with its Pegasus spyware.

Colonial surveillance: Palestinians already live in a tech dystopia

For Israel, the basic human rights of colonised Palestinians, such as the right to privacy, are irrelevant.

Israel’s dystopian surveillance state targets Palestinians for ‘existing’

Recent reports of the Israeli army’s facial recognition program and the NSO Group’s hacking of activists highlights the ongoing digital repression meted out against Palestinians.

US adds Israeli spyware company NSO Group to trade blacklist

The Israeli firm is behind the Pegasus phone hacking spyware that has reportedly been used around the world to break into the phones of human rights activists, journalists and politicians.

Heads of state on NSO spyware potential target list include Macron, Khan

Among potential targets found on a list of 50,000 phone numbers leaked to Amnesty and nonprofit Forbidden Stories include Presidents Emmanuel Macron of France, Imran Khan of Pakistan, Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa and Barham Salih of Iraq.

How NSO spyware became a favourite espionage tool for autocratic regimes

The latest NSO Group hack reveals grievous abuse of democracy, but this is not the first time the Israeli-linked company has been used as a weapon to target people.

US: China govt contracts criminal hackers, behind Microsoft cyberattack

Opening a new area of tensions, the United States is joined by NATO, the European Union, Britain, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and Canada to level allegations against the Chinese government for “malicious” cyber activity.

Google, Cisco, others wake up to threat from ‘cyber-mercenary’ NSO Group

Several tech giants have joined the legal battle against the Israeli spyware firm for creating a “systemic cybersecurity risk.”

UK exported spying technology to autocratic states like Saudi Arabia, UAE

Reaping nearly $100 million in sales over five years, the British government provided spyware, wiretaps and other telecom interception tools to 17 countries, many with a track record of targeting dissent and undemocratic behaviour.