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A hacker posted the personal data of several of the hacking victims on his Instagram account, @ihackthegovernment, according to a court document. Last week, Nicholas Moore,…

Every year, TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield competition attracts thousands of applicants. We narrow these applications down to the top 200 contenders, and of those, the top 20…

It was a normal day when Jay Gibson received an unexpected notification on his iPhone. “Apple has detected a targeted mercenary spyware attack against your iPhone,”…

For more than a decade, dozens of journalists and human rights activists have been targeted and hacked by governments around the world. Cops and spies Ethiopia,…

Spyware maker Intellexa remotely accessed some of its government customers’ monitoring systems, allowing company executives to see the personal data of people whose phones were hacked…

India has backed away from a plan to force smartphone makers to pre-install a government app on all devices, following a backlash and growing concerns that…

For more than a decade, makers of government spyware have defended themselves from criticism by saying their surveillance technology is intended to be used only against…

OpenAI executives have fielded a lot of questions about how they expect to pay for the $1.4 trillion in data center construction and usage commitments they’ve…

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…

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…