Letters: The reported targeting of student activists in Serbia is an example of increased misuse, with serious consequences for the commercial spyware industry ...

Apple has issued a new warning to iPhone users that it believes have been targeted by spyware. The iPhone maker sent the notifications to users in 100 countries, according to TechCrunch, which spoke ...

Spyware comes in many forms -- for example, delivered as a Trojan in the form of a browser extension or a mobile app that oversteps necessary permissions or as malware via phishing attacks. While the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For more than a decade, makers of government spyware have defended themselves from criticism by saying that their surveillance ...

“It is a direct attack on the rule of law,” says one European Parliament member of the new findings from Citizen Lab. “I was not expecting that,” Kouloglou, a longtime investigative journalist who ...

WhatsApp said on Friday that it had disrupted a hacking campaign that targeted around 90 users, including journalists and members of civil society. A WhatsApp spokesperson told TechCrunch that the ...

U.S. courts are set to begin publicly reporting how often federal judges authorize the government to use spyware and hacking tools to intercept real-time communications, giving the public its first ...

WhatsApp has claimed that some users were "possibly compromised" by spyware, according to a report by The Guardian. The Meta-owned messaging app went on to allege that nearly 100 journalists and ...

The governments of Australia, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Israel, and Singapore are likely customers of Israeli spyware maker Paragon Solutions, according to a new technical report by a renowned digital ...

Citizen Lab senior researcher Bill Marczak said that while the organization has achieved some important wins against spyware proliferation, the progress is inevitably hindered by vendors that ...

An antivirus utility that only defends against viruses would be nearly useless. Computer viruses are just one type of threat, and not a common one at that. A proper antivirus program defends against ...

For more than a decade, makers of government spyware have defended themselves from criticism by saying that their surveillance technology is intended to be used only against serious criminals and ...