Journalists, activists and human rights workers across the globe are being targeted by mercenary spyware - powerful ...

NSO Group, the Israeli spyware-maker behind Pegasus, must pay Meta $167.25 million for hacking 1,400 users across WhatsApp.

AI-powered radar can intercept phone calls from 10 feet away by decoding tiny earpiece vibrations, raising new privacy ...

Overview: In one notable case from 2018, the report claims that Huawei-assisted hacking enabled the state to access the ...

Pegasus, an advanced spyware tool developed by Israeli firm NSO Group, has been used to track journalists, politicians, and celebrities. The software can secretly extract messages, call logs, and ...

“The most notorious mercenary spyware currently available is NSO Group’s Pegasus,” John Scott-Railton, senior researcher at Citizen Lab, which assisted in investigating Pegasus, had said ...

Headline May 09, 2025 In California, a federal jury has ordered Israeli spyware firm NSO Group to pay over $167 million in damages for hacking some 1,400 WhatsApp users with Pegasus spyware.

NSO claims it only sells its spyware to legitimate government law enforcement and intelligence agencies vetted by Israel’s Defense Ministry for use against terrorists and criminals, but Meta is suing ...

Meta Platforms, Inc. META -owned WhatsApp has secured a $168 million jury verdict against NSO Group, the Israeli firm behind the controversial Pegasus spyware, over a 2019 hacking incident.

The Austrian government is likely to face legal challenges after it succeeded on its fifth attempt to pass a law this month giving the country’s intelligence service legal powers to deploy spyware on ...