NSO Group allegedly offered “bags of cash” in return for access to cell networks in the United States to track people through their mobile devices, according to a whistleblower’s complaint to the US Department of Justice (DoJ). The claims made by Gary Miller were published on Tuesday by the Pegasus Project consortium, along with other […]

Israel’s national police force on Tuesday said it had found evidence pointing to improper use of sophisticated spyware by its own investigators to snoop on Israeli citizens’ phones.

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Finland is weathering a bout of Pegasus infections, along with a Facebook Messenger phishing scam.

Mobile phones belonging to Finnish diplomats were spied on using the cyber espionage software Pegasus, the country’s foreign ministry said on Friday.

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Two more Poles have been identified as victims of phone hacking with the notoriously powerful spyware from Israel’s NSO Group: an agrarian political leader at odds with Poland’s right-wing government and the co-author of a book about the head of Poland’s secret services.

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Bitcoin luminaries like Peter McCormick, Justine Harper, Charlie Lee, Jimmy Song and more joined a New Year's "Bitcoin Bottom Line."

Israel’s parliament is looking into the reported use of tech company NSO Group’s controversial Pegasus spyware against citizens by Israeli police, a legislator said on Tuesday. According to a report from Israeli newspaper Calcalist, police had NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware in their possession since 2013. The Israeli company is currently on a US government blacklist. Calcalist said […]

Israeli lawmakers on Tuesday called for a parliamentary inquiry into the police’s alleged use of sophisticated spyware on Israeli citizens, including protesters opposed to former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, following a newspaper report on the surveillance.

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Key Takeaways Reports emerged this week that the government of El Salvador may be surveilling journalists using the spyware "Pegasus." Crypto community members are now...

Pegasus spyware was found on 35 journalists' phones from El Faro, one of the only major outlets in El Salvador to criticize its president.

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The good news is that you can take steps to avoid advanced persistent threats. The bad news is that it might cost you iMessage. And FaceTime.

Many of last year's largest app breaches could have been prevented with testing, training, and the will to take app security seriously.