data breaches

  • NSO Group’s Spyware Breached a Journalist’s iPhone After Apple Sued

    NSO Group’s Spyware Breached a Journalist’s iPhone After Apple Sued

    NSO Group, the creepy spyware firm known for selling its services to authoritarian governments throughout the world, is in trouble again. A new report shows that the company’s most notorious malware, Pegasus, was used to hack the iPhone of a Jordanian journalist in December. The hack occurred several weeks after Apple filed a high-profile suit…


  • A Notorious Spyware Firm Claims It Won’t Help Hack UK Phones Anymore

    A Notorious Spyware Firm Claims It Won’t Help Hack UK Phones Anymore

    NSO Group, the notorious Israeli spyware vendor, will no longer allow its clients to hack citizens of the United Kingdom, sources close to the company told The Guardian this week. The changes have been “hard-coded” into NSO’s infamous malware, Pegasus, and will make future targeting of UK-based phone numbers impossible, the sources claim.


  • Let’s Reminisce About Last Year’s Most Memorable Data Breaches

    Let’s Reminisce About Last Year’s Most Memorable Data Breaches

    Ah, data breaches. The stuff of internet nightmare. In recent years, we’ve seen more and more of them — to the point where it seems like wherever you store your data, most of it is just breach-material that hasn’t been breached yet. However, weird as it may sound, 2020 actually saw a lot fewer publicly…