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At the start of 2021, a poorly communicated privacy policy change spurred a mass exodus from Facebook-owned WhatsApp. During the week after the announcement – which saw WhatsApp demand users accept a new policy or delete their accounts – …

Democratic lawmakers in Washington have called on the Biden administration to consider placing NSO Group on an export blacklist and said recent revelations of misuse reinforced their conviction that the “hacking-for-hire industry must be…

Ransomware is the threat of 2021. It’s impacting everything from large enterprises, hospitals, to other aspects of our critical infrastructure. Here, we’ll take a look at actual malware domain traffic and how it correlates to ransomware…

Pegasus spyware, Senior government officials and “allies of the US” were targeted by the spyware from the surveillance software developer NSO Group, according to the head of encrypted messaging app WhatsApp. Will Cathcart, who became the…

In an interview with the Guardian, the WhatsApp CEO talks about NSO malware and says Apple should “be loud, join in” rather than saying this won’t affect many of its users. Last weekend, NSO malware, an explosive report from Amnesty…

Pegasus, Pavel Durov said that the Google-Apple duopoly is a challenge for privacy Telegram founder Pavel Durov said that he got used to being under surveillance while living in Russia since 2011. The news that he was a target in the…

It’s tough to decide whether an app is a nasty example of stalkerware — reporting on what, where, and when the tracked individual is doing something — or a legitimate tracker like a parental control app for a child’s phone. Both stalker and…

An Israeli commission reviewing allegations that NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware was misused by its customers to target journalists and human rights activists will examine whether rules on Israel’s export of cyberweapons such as Pegasus should…

Smartphone security, Go anywhere online, and it feels like someone is watching. That's because, well, they are. smartphone security, Did you know there’s a secret advertiser ID hiding your smartphone? It can easily be traced directly to…

The telephone numbers of more than 60 women – homemakers, lawyers and school teachers, journalists, scientists, civil servants and even friends of politicians – figure in the leaked database of probable surveillance targets selected by an…