It’s a major ruling in a landmark lawsuit that has had plenty of twists and turns — with more likely to come.
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.
This is the first time representatives for the spyware maker have publicly named its government customers.
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.
The 21 signatories support a number of steps, such as banning vendors who behave illegally, in a document agreed to last week in Paris.
A current RCMP officer and retired Vancouver police officer say the RCMP used controversial spyware technology on them when they were identified as witnesses in a foreign interference case that is still before the courts. One expert says the technology has surpassed the legal framework required to ensure Canadians’ privacy.
The ruling said that a lower court can charge two NSO Group co-founders and a former executive of two affiliate companies for the alleged hacking of a lawyer.
Undersecretary Alfredo Mantovano has reportedly admitted that Italy’s intelligence services authorised spyware surveillance on NGO members.
Amnesty International has found evidence that two journalists at the Serbia-based Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (“BIRN”), an award-winning network of investigative journalists, were targeted with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware in February 2025.
In our first investigation into Israel-based spyware company, Paragon Solutions, we begin to untangle multiple threads connected to the proliferation of Paragon's mercenary spyware operations across the globe. This report includes an infrastructure analysis of Paragon’s spyware product, called Graphite; a forensic analysis of infected devices belonging to members of civil society; and a closer look at the use of Paragon spyware in both Canada and Italy.
Meloni administration pressed to address issue after other people working with migrants also told they were targeted
The Federazione Nazionale Stampa Italiana (FNSI) and the Order of Journalists today announced that they are taking legal action with the Rome public ...
Italian company SIO, which sells to government customers, is behind an Android spyware campaign called Spyrtacus that spoofed popular apps like WhatsApp, per security researchers.
Four people have so far come forward as victims of the Paragon spyware campaign targeting WhatsApp users, including one journalist and three activists.
Exclusive: Decision comes after it emerged an Italian investigative journalist and two activists targeted by Paragon Solutions spyware
Israeli spyware maker Paragon Solutions confirmed to TechCrunch that it sells its products to the U.S. government and other unspecified allied countries.
Luca Casarini is most prominent person to come forward since WhatsApp said that 90 people, across two dozen countries, had probably been hacked
Husam El Gomati, who reports on links between Italian government and Libya’s coastguard, fears for his sources
Zbigniew Ziobro, former justice minister of Poland, has been arrested for allegedly signing off on the use of government money to pay for spyware used to snoop on opposition leaders.