Concerns that phone-hacking software may have been used to spy on political opponents spark fury Revelations about the use of spying tools sold to governments by NSO Group sparked furious political rows across the world on Monday after evidence emerged to suggest the surveillance firm’s clients may have sought to […]
Year: 2021
Indian prime minister under fire after phone numbers of political rivals appear in data leak Narendra Modi’s government has been accused of treason and “unforgivable sacrilege” by the political opposition in India following a series of reports by the Pegasus project revealing several journalists, activists and an opposition election strategist […]
NSA whistleblower warns of world in which no phone is safe from state-sponsored hackers if no action taken Governments must impose a global moratorium on the international spyware trade or face a world in which no mobile phone is safe from state-sponsored hackers, Edward Snowden has warned in the wake […]
The iPhone maker says it is keeping pace with malware, but the Pegasus project paints a worrying picture It is one of the technological battles of the 21st century – in which every mobile phone user has a stake. In one corner, Apple, which has more than a billion active […]
Ministers hope move for venues such as nightclubs will boost vaccine uptake among young people Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Vaccine passports will be compulsory to enter packed venues such as nightclubs in an extraordinary U-turn announced by Boris Johnson hours after clubs were allowed to […]
Spyware sold to authoritarian regimes used to target activists, politicians and journalists, data suggests Human rights activists, journalists and lawyers across the world have been targeted by authoritarian governments using hacking software sold by the Israeli surveillance company NSO Group, according to an investigation into a massive data leak. The […]
Forensic analysis shows phones of those close to journalist were targeted before and after he was murdered In the wake of the brutal murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the NSO Group emphatically denied that its government clients had used its hacking malware to target the journalist or his family. […]
The Pegasus project poses urgent questions about the privatisation of the surveillance industry and the lack of safeguards for citizens Today, for the first time in the history of modern spying, we are seeing the faces of the victims of targeted cyber-surveillance. This is a worldwide scandal – a global […]
Data leak and forensics suggest NSO’s surveillance tool used against journalists at some of world’s top media companies The editor of the Financial Times is one of more than 180 editors, investigative reporters and other journalists around the world who were selected as possible candidates for surveillance by government clients […]
On 2 March 2017, Cecilio Pineda Birto made a broadcast about alleged corruption. Hours later he was dead The hitmen came for Cecilio Pineda Birto as he swung in a hammock at a carwash, waiting for his pickup to be cleaned. The 38-year-old freelance reporter was shot dead on 2 […]