The trio of spyware apps — hacked earlier this year — no longer work.
Beirut, May 16, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists urges Jordanian authorities to lift Wednesday’s ban on a dozen online news outlets for “spreading media poison and attacking Jordan,” following the publication of allegations that the government unfairly profited from aid to Gaza. “The Jordanian Media Commission’s decision to block 12 media websites is deeply alarming,”...
Seven organizations have today filed a landmark public interest case challenging the unlawful disruption of internet access in Kenya. The organizations are: The International Commission of Jurists, Kenya Section (ICJ Kenya), The Bloggers Association of Kenya (BAKE), Paradigm Initiative (PIN), Kenya Union of Journalists (KUJ), Katiba Institute, The Law Society of Kenya (LSK) and The Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA). After the case was filed, High Court Justice Bahati Mwamuye issued orders stopping all […]
The landmark trial between WhatsApp and NSO Group unearthed several new revelations. We recap some of them here.
It’s a major ruling in a landmark lawsuit that has had plenty of twists and turns — with more likely to come.
OpenAI has decided that its nonprofit division will retain control over its for-profit org, after the company initially announced that it planned to convert to a for-profit organization.
Content moderators who comb through harmful material uploaded to online platforms have formed a global trade union alliance to improve working conditions.
Alphabet Inc. pays Samsung Electronics Co. an “enormous sum of money” every month to preinstall Google generative AI app, Gemini, on its phones and devices, according to court testimony, even though the company’s practice of paying for installations has twice been found to violate the law.
The ruling, which has yet to take effect, was ordered under India's online blocking laws.
Hannah Neumann was targeted in a cyber-espionage operation by an infamous Iranian hacking group earlier this year, she said.
Our investigation of a spearphishing campaign that targeted senior members of the World Uyghur Congress in March 2025 reveals a highly-customized attack delivery method. The ruse used by attackers replicates a pattern in which threat actors weaponize software and websites aimed at preserving and supporting marginalized and repressed cultures to target those same communities.
Workers at contractor in Accra say they have suffered from depression and anxiety as a result of their work
Three users who disagreed with the site’s owner saw views for their posts plummet.
A sustained, coordinated social media harassment and doxxing campaign – which we codenamed JUICYJAM – targeting the pro-democracy movement in Thailand has run uninterrupted, and unchallenged, since at least August 2020. Through our analysis of public social media posts we determined that the campaign was not only inauthentic, but the information revealed could not have been reasonably sourced from a private individual.
Starlink’s rapid growth is forcing Nigerian ISPs to adapt or die as businesses and consumers flock to Elon Musk’s satellite network for reliable internet.
This is the first time representatives for the spyware maker have publicly named its government customers.
The Israeli spyware maker, still on the US Commerce Department’s “blacklist,” has hired a new lobbying firm with direct ties to the Trump administration, a WIRED investigation has found.
Exclusive: Algorithms allegedly being used to study data of thousands of people, in project critics say is ‘chilling and dystopian’
Spyware maker NSO Group wants to call expert witnesses as a jury decides on damages in a civil case involving WhatsApp. A federal judge appears disinclined to honor the request, saying their testimony about the company's practices might not be relevant.
The list of 1,223 victims in 51 countries hints at the “true scale of the spyware problem,” per one researcher.