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US prosecutors have charged two rogue employees of a cybersecurity firm that specializes in negotiating ransom payments to hackers on behalf of their victims with conducting…
The US Congressional Budget Office confirmed that it was hacked. Caitlin Emma, a spokeswoman for the CBO, told TechCrunch on Friday that the agency is investigating…
The Washington Post reported that it was one of the victims of a hacking campaign linked to Oracle’s line of enterprise software applications. Reuters first was…
Security researchers discovered an Android spyware targeting Samsung Galaxy phones during a nearly year-long hacking campaign. Researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 said the spyware,…
Francesco Nicodemo, a consultant who works with left-wing politicians in Italy, has come forward as the latest person to be targeted with the Paragon spyware in…
Journalists in Europe found it was “easy” to spy on top European Union officials using commercially downloaded location histories sold by data brokers, despite the continent…
Peter Williams, the former managing director of Trenchant, a division of defense contractor L3Harris that develops surveillance and hacking tools for Western governments, pleaded guilty last…
US telecommunications giant Ribbon has confirmed that government-backed hackers accessed its network for nearly a year before they were caught, according to a public filing. The…
Former L3 boss Harris Trenchant pleads guilty to selling zero-day exploits to Russian broker
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Peter Williams, a former general manager at defense firm L3Harris, pleaded guilty to selling surveillance technology to a Russian broker buying “cyber tools,” the US Department…
Spyware maker Memento Labs’ CEO confirms one of its government clients was caught using malware
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On Monday, researchers at cybersecurity giant Kaspersky published a report detecting a new spyware called Dante that they say was targeting Windows victims in Russia and…