The spyware industry’s worst kept secret has finally been spoken aloud in a federal courtroom: the boss behind pcTattletale has admitted to hacking and to selling software designed to let customers ...

From hijacking your accounts to tracking your every move in real-time ...

Meta’s (META) WhatsApp has accused Israeli spyware firm Paragon Solutions of hacking nearly 90 of its users, including journalists and civil society members. WhatsApp, a unit of Meta Platforms, issued ...

(Bloomberg) -- Meta Platforms Inc.’s WhatsApp messenger service said it disrupted a hacking campaign linked to Israeli spyware firm Paragon. WhatsApp detected efforts to hack the phones of ...

Social media giant Meta won $167 million in punitive damages after a California jury slammed Israeli spyware-maker NSO Group over a hack that involved 1,400 WhatsApp users' devices. See Also: What ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The founder of a U.S.-based spyware company, whose surveillance products allowed customers to spy on the phones and computers of ...

A federal jury in California ordered Israeli cyberintelligence firm NSO Group on Tuesday to pay Meta and WhatsApp nearly $170 million for hacking about 1,400 users on the instant messaging platform.

This year, a Serbian journalist and an activist had their phones hacked by local authorities using a cellphone-unlocking device made by forensic tool maker Cellebrite. The authorities’ goal was not ...

Critics of spyware and exploit sellers have long warned that the advanced hacking sold by commercial surveillance vendors (CSVs) represents a worldwide danger because they inevitably find their way ...

Amnesty International says that Serbian police detained activists and journalists on false premises in order to hack their devices with Cellebrite tools and install Android spyware. Amnesty ...

(l-r) Greg Andres, Antonio Perez-Marques, and Micah Block of Davis Polk & Wardwell. Courtesy photos Rarely do human rights groups weigh in when Big Tech companies land nine-digit damages awards at ...