New analysis confirms the targeted applications and reveals fast16 was tailored to corrupt uranium-compression simulations central to nuclear weapon design.
The Barcelona High Court reopens the investigation into Pegasus espionage against three Òmnium members, requesting information from the CNI.
After a global Pegasus spyware scandal, El Salvador’s presidential office quietly pursued a new spyware deal through intermediaries.
Despite promising to help determine what happened with the hacks targeting journalists and activists in Italy, Israeli American spyware maker Paragon has reportedly not responded to authorities’ requests for information.
Morpheus: A new Spyware linked to IPS Intelligence
Security officials will warn there is an increasing cyber threat from nation states at a conference in Glasgow on Wednesday.
In a letter sent last week, ICE's top official indicated to members of Congress that the agency is using a spyware tool to intercept encrypted messages of fentanyl traffickers.
The Meta-owned company said it identified around 200 users who were tricked into installing a fake version of WhatsApp that was actually Italian-made spyware.
The founder of the commercial spyware firm Intellexa, recently convicted in a landmark wiretapping trial, says his company sells its technology exclusively to governments—an admission opposition leaders claim proves the state orchestrated a massive domestic espionage campaign.
In what became known as "Greece's Watergate", surveillance software called Predator was used to target 87 people.
A new investigation by Amnesty International’s Security Lab has discovered evidence that the Predator spyware was used in 2024 to target Teixeira Cândido – an Angolan journalist, jurist, press freedom activist, and former Secretary-General of the Syndicate of Angolan Journalists (Sindicato dos Journalists Angolanos). This is the first forensically confirmed case of the Predator spyware being used to target civil society in Angola.
In a Letter to Justice Minister Yariv Levin, Committee Members Accused Law Enforcement of Coordinating Efforts to Undermine Their Mandate. Their Resignation Follows a High Court Proposal to Bar the Panel From Examining Active Criminal Cases, Including Those Involving the Prime Minister
Five Democratic US senators are asking the Trump administration to explain its decision to lift sanctions on people the government had previously accused of helping spread sophisticated surveillance technology that’s allegedly been used against Americans.
Spyware maker NSO Group trumpeted the company’s participation in the Pall Mall Process, which drew criticism from civil society leaders and government officials who called out human rights abuses.
High court finds kingdom responsible for hacking phones of Ghanem al-Masarir and for physical attack on him
The case dates to May 2022, when the court launched a probe into the alleged spying on devices belonging to Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and Defence Minister Margarita Robles.
The Irish government announced that it wants to pass a law that would grant police more surveillance powers, such as using spyware to fight serious crime, while aiming to protect the privacy rights of its citizens.
Andrés Idárraga tiene pruebas de contaminación de su teléfono con Pegasus. Las órdenes para acecharlo ilegalmente vendrían de miembros del Gobierno.
States use mercenary spyware technology, such as NSO Group’s Pegasus, Paragon’s Graphite, and Cytrox’s Predator, to remotely and clandestinely infect the smartphones of members of civil society and gain complete access to the targeted device’s data. While such invasive and powerful technology has been the focus of some limited government action to curb proliferation, the global spyware industry continues to thrive. Purportedly developed as a means of fighting crime and terrorism, spyware is sold to governments around the world, many of which have long histories of political repression and human rights abuses. Operating largely in secret and with little oversight, governments use mercenary spyware to target and gather information on human rights defenders, journalists, dissidents, and other members of civil society in violation of international human rights law. In addition to an absence of a global consensus on how to prevent such violations, there is a lack of accountability in the development, sale, and deployment of this technology and, most notably, a failure on the part of states or spyware companies to remedy these human rights violations. In the absence of any meaningful mechanism for remedy or reparation, this article investigates how members of civil society (in particular, journalists and human rights defenders) targeted by spyware have attempted to seek a remedy. First, the article describes the broader context in which mercenary spyware is used, focusing on the deleterious impacts it has on human rights when deployed by government institutions. Second, it surveys some of the different mechanisms that spyware targets have pursued to seek some kind of remedy for such violations. This includes civil litigation by spyware targets against perpetrating states and spyware companies, civil litigation led by companies whose services are exploited to deliver spyware (such as Apple and WhatsApp) against spyware companies, legislative reform efforts, and government-led commissions of inquiry. This article analyzes gaps and challenges that remain in obtaining a remedy for spyware targets. The paper concludes by suggesting areas for reform such that members of civil society may exercise more agency in the fight against spyware and may access meaningful remedies.
South Africa-based Peter Kruger and Yalon Elad have been offering zero-click technology to a host of governments, while also maintaining ties with the corporate intelligence world.