Collaborate Disseminate
The commercial spyware industry continues to supply highly advanced surveillance capabilities despite efforts to better regulate it.
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Officials said the visa restriction policy can apply to citizens of any country found to have misused or facilitated the malign use of spyware
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Pegasus spyware from NSO Group was used in Jordan to hack the cellphones of journalists, lawyers, human rights and political activists.
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New iMessage Contact Key Verification feature in Apple’s iOS and macOS platforms help catch impersonators on its iMessage service.
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The founder of a news outlet outlawed in Russia for its independent reporting and stance on the war in Ukraine, believes that a country in the European Union was behind the hacking of her iPhone with military-grade spyware.
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CISA, the United States’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, has ordered federal agencies to patch their iPhones against vulnerabilities that can be used as part of a zero-click attack to install spyware from the notorious NSO Group.
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It’s a cat-and-mouse struggle as tech giants Microsoft and Apple deal with persistent threats from China state actors and Pegasus spyware. Continue reading Microsoft, Apple versus China, spyware actors
The two foreign companies are being sanctioned for “for trafficking in cyber exploits used to gain access to information systems.”
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The actions are the first major initiative on spyware since Biden issued an executive order restricting on government use of surveillance software.
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The new guidelines ban government agencies from using spyware deemed to pose a national security threat to the United States.
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