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fromTheregister
2 days ago

CISA: Spyware crews breaking into Signal, WhatsApp accounts

The agency says the activity it's seeing suggests an increasing focus on "high-value" individuals - everyone from current and former senior government, military, and political officials to civil society groups across the US, the Middle East, and Europe. In many of the campaigns, attackers delivered spyware first and asked questions later, using the foothold to deploy more payloads and deepen their access.
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fromThe Hacker News
2 days ago

CISA Warns of Active Spyware Campaigns Hijacking High-Value Signal and WhatsApp Users

Commercial spyware and RATs actively target mobile messaging app users, enabling account hijacking, persistent access, and data exfiltration.
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fromWIRED
2 months ago

US Investment in Spyware Is Skyrocketing

Resellers and brokers expand and obscure the spyware supply chain, creating accountability gaps while remaining largely absent from current policy responses.
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fromTheregister
2 months ago

ICE spyware deal put on hold by Biden released by Trump

ICE's purchase of Paragon Solutions spyware was reinstated after Paragon became US-owned, circumventing a previous executive-order ban on foreign commercial spyware.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has operational access to Graphite, a commercial spyware able to compromise any mobile phone and bypass encrypted apps.
fromSecuritymagazine
4 months ago

CISA's Reset Delays Action as Mobile Spyware Surges

Leadership changes at CISA, intended for modernization, are currently hindering federal cybersecurity progress as adversaries' tactics evolve faster than new policies can adapt.
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