🚨 NEW: Serbian authorities have used highly invasive spyware, including NSO Group’s Pegasus, as well as digital forensic tools to target activists & journalists during periods of detention or routine police interviews, @Amnesty investigation reveals. securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2024/12…

NEW: U.S. private equity firm AE Industrial has acquired Israeli spyware maker Paragon, which has been making inroads in the U.S. market, for ~$500 million. The acquisition shows the spyware market is in flux after all the scandals involving NSO Group. techcrunch.com/2024/12/16/isr…

Serbian authorities are building a “digital prison” against dissenting voices — this must be dismantled! Abusing spyware and forensic tools to silence, target, and harass civil society is unacceptable, and Serbian agencies must be held to account.

Here’s a new year’s resolution for Poland: end spyware abuse during your upcoming EU Presidency! Along with civil society orgs in the EU, we ask Poland to live up to its international commitments in 2025.

BREAKING: NSO Group liable for #Pegasus hacking of WhatsApp users. Big win for spyware victims. Big loss for NSO. Bad time to be a spyware company. Landmark case. Huge implications. 1/ 🧵

It's time governments work together to secure people against spyware! Today from 3-6 PM EST, join us as we follow members of the UN Security Council as they discuss the harmful impact of commercial spyware on international peace + security. Tune in: ⬇️ webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1j/k…

NEW: Apple's new iOS 18.3 fixes a zero-day bug that “may have been actively exploited” — meaning hackers were using it to compromise devices. Not details on who was behind it, or who they were targeting. It's the first iPhone in the wild bug of 2025. techcrunch.com/2025/01/28/app…

NEW: We found a sneaky Android phone stalkerware app that requires a password to deactivate or uninstall. Worse, the password is set by whoever planted the app. The good news is there's a way to uninstall the spyware without knowing the password. techcrunch.com/2025/04/03/thi…

NEW: Cocospy, Spyic and Spyzie, the stalkerware apps that were breached earlier this year and caught spying on millions of people's phones, now appear to have shut down. The apps not working, their websites gone, and Amazon-hosted cloud storage deleted. techcrunch.com/2025/05/19/coc…

Yesterday, the Italian parliamentary intel oversight committee published its findings into the Paragon scandal in the country. The report admits the use of spyware against human rights and migration activists. But it falls short on other fronts. Read more👇

🚨NEW INVESTIGATION: We just forensically unmasked #Paragon's Apple spyware. Zero-click targets: Journalists. In 🇪🇺Europe. Like 🇮🇹Italian reporter Ciro Pellegrino. Reopen's #Italy's spyware scandal. Follows our The Citizen Lab investigation of their Android spyware. 1/