Google calls out spyware firms and advocates for tighter regulationSpyware firms often say their products are meant for the use of governments for national security, but the technology has been repeatedly f...
06 Feb, 2024, 04.27 PM IST
How the global spyware industry spiralled out of controlThe Biden administration took a public stand last year against the abuse of spyware but the global industry for commercial spyware - which ...
09 Dec, 2022, 10.28 PM IST
Israeli spyware company NSO Group CEO Shalev Hulio steps downThe surveillance firm, which makes Pegasus software, has been contending with legal action after allegations that its tools were misused by...
22 Aug, 2022, 09.31 AM IST
EU found evidence employee phones compromised with spyware: letterThe warning from Apple triggered the inspection of Reynders’ personal and professional devices as well as other phones used by European Com...
27 Jul, 2022, 08.42 PM IST
Apple and Android phones hacked by Italian spyware, Google saysMilan-based RCS Lab, whose website claims European law enforcement agencies as clients, developed tools to spy on private messages and cont...
24 Jun, 2022, 07.20 AM IST
Israeli inquiry checking NSO database over police wiretap allegationsNSO, which has denied wrongdoing amid months of spiralling reports in Israel and abroad of privacy violations by government clients using P...
13 Feb, 2022, 07.57 PM IST
Pegasus and a missile system were 'centerpieces' of $2 billion deal between India and Israel in 2017: NYTThe report also referred to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Israel in July 2017 - to become the first Indian prime minister to visi...
29 Jan, 2022, 01.07 PM IST
Modi govt has committed treason: Rahul Gandhi on NYT report on Pegasus"By tapping phones, they have targeted all including the ruling party, the opposition, the army, the judiciary. This is treason," Rahul Gan...
29 Jan, 2022, 12.40 PM IST
Illegal snooping using Pegasus amounts to treason: Cong on NYT report on the spywareAccording to the report in The New York Times, the Israeli spyware Pegasus and a missile system were the "centerpieces" of a roughly USD 2-...
29 Jan, 2022, 12.15 PM IST
Israel slashes list of countries that can buy cyber techIsrael's Defence Ministry said in a statement it takes "appropriate steps" when terms of usage set in export licenses it issues are violate...
26 Nov, 2021, 09.20 AM IST
Apple files lawsuit against NSO Group, saying US citizens were targetsThe iPhone maker said it is also seeking to ban NSO Group from using any Apple software, services or devices to prevent further abuse.
24 Nov, 2021, 10.59 AM IST
NSO ended Pegasus contract with UAE over Dubai leader's hackingSheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, vice president and prime minister of the UAE, instructed the hacking of six phones belonging to Prin...
07 Oct, 2021, 10.20 AM IST
No deal with Pegasus maker: Ministry of Defence in Rajya SabhaIn the first categorical denial by an Indian ministry over the use of the spyware, the defence ministry responded to a question in the Rajy...
10 Aug, 2021, 07.37 AM IST
Israeli agencies raid NSO offices over Pegasus rowThough there is little clarity on the nature of the raids, Israeli news outlet Calcalist cited an anonymous source to term the move “more o...
30 Jul, 2021, 09.50 AM IST
Plea filed in SC seeking SIT probe into Pegasus snooping allegations"Privacy is not about the wish to hide, as is often asserted. It is about having a space of one's own where our thoughts and being are not ...
22 Jul, 2021, 11.59 AM IST
Amazon shuts down Pegasus-owner NSO Group's infrastructureIn a statement to Motherboard, an AWS spokesperson said that "When we learned of this activity, we acted quickly to shut down the relevant ...
20 Jul, 2021, 11.37 AM IST
Report: Government spyware targets phones of Al-Jazeera reportersCitizen Lab at the University of Toronto said on Sunday it traced malware that infected the personal phones of 36 journalists, producers, a...
21 Dec, 2020, 11.52 AM IST