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Israeli Spyware Vendor QuaDream to Shut Down Following Citizen Lab and Microsoft Expose

By Ravie Lakshmanan — April 17th 2023 at 16:32
Israeli spyware vendor QuaDream is allegedly shutting down its operations in the coming days, less than a week after its hacking toolset was exposed by Citizen Lab and Microsoft. The development was reported by the Israeli business newspaper Calcalist, citing unnamed sources, adding the company "hasn't been fully active for a while" and that it "has been in a difficult situation for several
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Ex-NSA Employee Arrested for Trying to Sell U.S. Secrets to a Foreign Government

By Ravie Lakshmanan — October 3rd 2022 at 09:51
A former U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) employee has been arrested on charges of attempting to sell classified information to a foreign spy, who was actually an undercover agent working for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Jareh Sebastian Dalke, 30, was employed at the NSA for less than a month from June 6, 2022, to July 1, 2022, serving as an Information Systems Security Designer
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Former Twitter Employee Found Guilty of Spying for Saudi Arabia

By Ravie Lakshmanan — August 10th 2022 at 15:12
A former Twitter employee has been pronounced guilty for his role in digging up private information pertaining to certain Twitter users and turning over that data to Saudi Arabia. Ahmad Abouammo, 44, was convicted by a jury after a two-week trial in San Francisco federal court, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. He faces up to 20 years in prison when sentenced. The verdict comes nearly three years
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Google Says ISPs Helped Attackers Infect Targeted Smartphones with Hermit Spyware

By Ravie Lakshmanan — June 24th 2022 at 11:40
A week after it emerged that a sophisticated mobile spyware dubbed Hermit was used by the government of Kazakhstan within its borders, Google said it has notified Android users of infected devices. Additionally, necessary changes have been implemented in Google Play Protect — Android's built-in malware defense service — to protect all users, Benoit Sevens and Clement Lecigne of Google Threat
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NSO Confirms Pegasus Spyware Used by at least 5 European Countries

By Ravie Lakshmanan — June 23rd 2022 at 11:08
The beleaguered Israeli surveillanceware vendor NSO Group this week admitted to the European Union lawmakers that its Pegasus tool was used by at least five countries in the region. "We're trying to do the right thing and that's more than other companies working in the industry," Chaim Gelfand, the company's general counsel and chief compliance officer, said, according to a report from Politico.
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