How Democracies Spy on Their Citizens
The inside story of the world’s most notorious commercial spyware and the big tech companies waging war against it.
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Spyware (a portmanteau for spying software) is software with malicious behavior that aims to gather information about a person or organization and send it to another entity in a way that harms the user. For example, by violating their privacy or endangering their device’s security. This behavior may be present in malware as well as in legitimate software. Websites may engage in spyware behaviors like web tracking. Hardware devices may also be affected. Spyware is frequently associated with advertising and involves many of the same issues. Because these behaviors are so common, and can have non-harmful uses, providing a precise definition of spyware is a difficult task.
—Wikipedia, “Spyware“
NSO Group Spyware Targeted Dozens of Reporters in El Salvador
The newly disclosed campaign shows how little the company has done to curb abuses of its powerful surveillance tools.
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Google Warns That NSO Hacking Is On Par With Elite Nation-State Spies
ForcedEntry is “one of the most technically sophisticated exploits” Project Zero security researchers have ever seen.
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The hacker-for-hire industry is now too big to fail
This is a big moment of turbulence and change for the hacking business. But the demand is here to stay.
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“A grim outlook”: How cyber surveillance is booming on a global scale
New data paints a detailed picture of the ways Western companies are selling cyber weapons and surveillance technology to NATO’s enemies.
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Inside NSO, Israel’s billion-dollar spyware giant
The world’s most notorious surveillance company says it wants to clean up its act. Go on, we’re listening.
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The man who built a spyware empire says it’s time to come out of the shadows
Shalev Hulio, co-founder and CEO of NSO, says his industry is full of companies trying to avoid scrutiny.
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