Coverage tagged "Spyware".
Candiru, an Israeli maker of spyware sold to governments, infected devices at the news network Al Jazeera through ordinary online ads, in attacks that needed no click or other action from the user…
Spyware vendors use online ad infrastructure to profile targets and deliver exploits without requiring users to click anything. The investigation links Discover-Tech to Candiru, an Israeli spyware…
Researchers at The Citizen Lab have for the first time released technical evidence of sophisticated mercenary spyware being distributed via online advertising.
That online ad you saw for earbuds, a drone or bubble gum-scented car air freshener may have been a gateway for mercenary spyware that can infect your device without you ever having to click on it…
The digital rights unit found evidence that dozens of devices at media organization Al Jazeera were hacked after being shown malicious online ads.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who ordered the investigation, on Monday called the sprawling spyware operation spearheaded by the country’s previous ruling party “one of the biggest scandals in Polish…
Paragon Solutions vowed not to sell its mobile spyware to governments with poor human rights records and to cut off customers who misuse its products. However, in 2025 researchers at the Citizen Lab…
The plaintiffs, who all worked for the independent and Salvadoran news outlet El Faro, failed to convince the court that their case had jurisdiction in California, according to the judge’s order.
When a journalist suspects their phone has been hacked, the first question is whether any trace of the attack is left. Google has added six features to Advanced Protection in Android 17, including…
Every few months, Malwarebytes gets a chance to test its mettle against real-world threats in an independent laboratory setting. And the latest round of results gives us plenty to celebrate…
In an exclusive interview with WIRED, Paragon Solutions CEO Andrew Boyd reveals the limits of the company’s promise to keep bad actors from abusing its powerful espionage tool.
CVE-2026-86950: Apple CoreGraphics Zero-Day Apple has issued an urgent security patch for CVE-2026-86950, a critical zero-day out-of-bounds write vulnerability in CoreGraphics that enables arbitrary…
The company plans to close the deal around the end of the year at which point Paragon will begin trading on Nasdaq under the REDLattice umbrella.
Apple has patched a CoreGraphics zero-day after warning that attackers may already have used the bug to compromise a small number of carefully chosen targets. The vulnerability, tracked as…
A purported ad-blocker exfiltrates reams of sensitive information, and benefits from having Google's stamp of approval despite researcher warnings.
