Browsing: Spyware

Spyware attacks on journalists, human rights defenders, and political dissidents are no longer rare or exotic. In early 2025, WhatsApp…

Earlier this year, Donncha Ó Cearbhaill, a security researcher who investigates spyware attacks, found himself in an unusual position. For…

Google is rolling out a new opt-in feature in Android that aims to help security researchers investigate spyware attacks. The…

Last year, WhatsApp and Apple notified several people in Italy, including journalists and activists, that they had been targeted with…

Yet another government spyware maker has been caught after its customers used fake Android apps to install its surveillance software…

Security researchers say they have identified a hack-for-hire group targeting journalists, activists, and government officials across the Middle East and…

The first convicted spyware maker in over a decade has avoided jail time after earlier pleading guilty to U.S. federal…

Mikko Hyppönen is pacing back and forth on the stage, with his trademark dark blonde ponytail resting on an impeccable…

The acting head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told lawmakers that it has bought and used spyware made by…

WhatsApp says it has notified around 200 users who were tricked into installing a malicious fake version of the chat…

Almost four years after launching a security feature called Lockdown Mode, Apple says it has yet to see a case…

The common assumption among iPhone security experts has been that finding vulnerabilities and developing exploits for iOS was difficult, requiring…

The founder of spyware maker Intellexa has said he is planning to appeal a conviction handed down by a Greek…

Italian authorities confirmed that a journalist who was alerted by WhatsApp last year of a suspected spyware attack on his…

A Greek court on Thursday sentenced the founder of Intellexa, a collective of spyware makers, to eight years in prison…

A government customer of sanctioned spyware maker Intellexa hacked the phone of a prominent journalist in Angola, according to Amnesty…