spyware
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Project Ghostbusters: Facebook Accused of Using Your Phone to Wiretap Snapchat
Unsealed court filings reveal Meta’s secret plan, ‘Project Ghostbusters,’ to acquire valuable intel about Snapchat through its users’ devices.
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Copy of a U.S. Federal Agency Disobeyed the White House and Purchased Banned NSO Group Spyware
In November of 2021, after years of ongoing scandals, the Biden administration formally blacklisted the NSO Group, a notorious spyware maker from Israel, shutting it off from American business and investment opportunities. But the New York Times now reports that not every part of the government was on the same page about that decision.
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Meta Security Exec Hacked and Tracked for a Year by ‘Predator’ Spyware
A former executive on Meta’s security policy team was hacked by the Greek government using sophisticated spyware known as “Predator,” which tracked her for a whole year.
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Greece Is Banning the Sale of Spyware After a Huge Phone-Tapping Scandal
After continually deflecting accusations that it surveilled droves of politicians and journalists using invasive phone-tapping software, Greece’s government has decided to ban sales of spyware within the country’s borders altogether. But the government also wants everybody to know that this is in no way an admission of guilt and that it definitely didn’t do anything wrong,…