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Peter Williams, a former boss of a U.S. defense contractor, was sentenced Tuesday to seven years in prison for stealing and selling his former company’s hacking and surveillance tools to a Russian company. Reporters with Bloomberg And Cyberscope first reported Williams’ conviction. Williams was the chief executive of Trenchant, a division of defense contractor L3Harris […]
Spyware maker Intellexa remotely accessed the surveillance systems of some government customers, allowing company staff to see the personal data of people whose phones were hacked with its Predator spyware, according to new evidence published by Amnesty International. On Thursday, Amnesty and a coalition of media partners, including the Israeli newspaper HaaretzGreek news site Inside […]
In recent months, Apple has informed more than a dozen Iranians that, according to security researchers, their iPhones were the target of the government’s spyware. Miaan Group, an organization for digital rights that focuses on Iran, and Hamid Kashfi, an Iranian researcher of cyber security who lives in Sweden, said they spoke with various Iranians […]
An Italian parliamentary committee confirmed that the Italian government used Spyware from the Israeli company Paragon to hack different activists who work to save immigrants at sea. However, the committee said that the investigation concluded that a prominent Italian journalist did not belong to the victims, so that important questions about the Spyware attacks had […]
In May, a jury ruled that Spywaremaker NSO Group $ 167 million should pay damage to WhatsApp for a 2019 hacking campaign that was aimed at more than 1,400 people. NSO Group now calls the damage -called ‘scandalous’, ‘clearly illegal’ and ‘unconstitutional’, NSO Group that the court supervises the case to reduce the amount or […]
