In a joint investigation with Access Now, we found that seven Russian and Belarusian-speaking independent journalists and opposition activists based in Europe were targeted and/or infected with NSO...

Madrid’s former interior minister said visiting Spain ‘should not be a priority,’ despite a raging political scandal over the use of Pegasus software.

New York Times journalist Ben Hubbard was targeted with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware via a June 2018 SMS message promising details about “Ben Hubbard and the story of the Saudi Royal Family.” The SMS...

A single activist helped turn the tide against NSO Group, one of the world’s most sophisticated spyware companies now facing a cascade of legal action and scrutiny in Washington over damaging new...

When Apple Inc begins hosting Chinese users' iCloud accounts in a new Chinese data center at the end of this month to comply with new laws there, Chinese authorities will have far easier access to...

The phone of French President Emmanuel Macron was on a list of potential targets for potential surveillance on behalf of Morocco in the Pegasus spyware case, French daily Le Monde reported on Tuesday.

Apple today detailed two initiatives to help protect users who may be personally targeted by sophisticated digital threats.

An activist who has been tortured for defying a dictator has been flagged as a national security risk by Canada’s immigration officials, after she participated in international efforts to hold Syria...

Citizen Lab examined a set of documents leaked to news outlet The Intercept that describe plans to develop and launch an Iranian mobile network, including subscriber management operations and...

Russia's Prosecutor-General's Office on March 18 labeled two Canadian educational institutes and the Russian Canadian Democratic Alliance NGO as "undesirable."

The U.S. on Monday placed Canada-based Sandvine Inc on a trade restriction list for allegedly helping the Egyptian government target human rights activists and politicians.

The new analysis challenges NSO claims that the murdered journalist's wife, Hanan Elatr, 'was not a target'

Defence minister appears to justify mass surveillance of Catalan leaders

The Citizen Lab, in collaboration with Catalan civil society groups, has identified at least 65 individuals targeted or infected with mercenary spyware, including members of the European Parliament,...

Between May and September 2023, former Egyptian MP Ahmed Eltantawy was targeted with Cytrox's Predator spyware via links sent on SMS and WhatsApp after Eltantawy publicly stated his plans to run for...

EU parliament’s troubled spyware probe in Spain concluded on Tuesday  leaving unaddressed key questions amid a lack of transparency by the Spanish authorities.

Premier Donald Tusk, powiedział, że ma dowody na to, iż program Pegasus został zakupiony na zlecenie Centralnego Biura Antykorupcyjnego z pieniędzy Funduszu Sprawiedliwości, w czasie kiedy Minister...

Leak suggests Indian opposition leader among hundreds selected for possible surveillance by Modi government

Faustin Rukundo had no idea that a strange call over WhatsApp had infected his phone with spyware.

How mercenary spyware threatens democracy.

The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has released a final rule adding four foreign companies to the Entity List for engaging in activities that are contrary to the national...

Among 50,000 phone numbers, the Pegasus Project found those of hundreds of public officials.

Targeting of Catalan independence leaders and Spanish ministers must be independently investigated, says cybersecurity expert

John Scott-Railton, a University of Toronto researcher, has been scouring images and crowdsourcing tips through social media in an effort to identify people who took part in last week’s deadly mob...

Investigate Europe is a cross-border journalism cooperative with reporters in 12 countries, along with collaborators from across Europe.

Unlike many other industrial sectors, the tech platforms have emerged from the pandemic stronger and are already positioning themselves as indispensable to public health. It’s time to hold them, and...

NEW YORK (AP) — The researchers who reported that Israeli software was used to spy on Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi's inner circle before his gruesome death are being targeted in turn by...

Amnesty International and the Citizen Lab have uncovered a coordinated spyware campaign targeting at least nine human rights defenders (HRDs) in India. Eight of the nine HRDs have been calling for...

The executive order establishes "robust guardrails" to guide the U.S. government's use of these tools.

Journalists and members of civil society had their phones successfully infected with NSO’s Pegasus spyware between July 2020 - November 2021.

Hanan Elatr also plans to sue Saudi and UAE governments over alleged surveillance attempts on her

In an investigative collaboration with Access Now, the Citizen Lab has analyzed forensic artifacts from the iPhone of award-winning exiled Russian investigative journalist Galina Timchenko and found...

The uncertainty that lingered over Noura Aljizawi's life over the past three years was lifted this past week. After initially flagging her as a potential threat to national security, the Canadian...

Spanish authorities have detected "Pegasus" spyware in the mobile phones of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Defence Minister Margarita Robles, the government minister for the presidency, Felix...

Breaking: NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware is being used as a weapon in the Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict.

In this report, we describe how Canadian permanent resident and Saudi dissident Omar Abdulaziz was targeted with a fake package delivery notification. We assess with high confidence that Abdulaziz’s...

The Information Controls Fellowship Program (ICFP) from the Open Technology Fund (OTF) fosters research, outputs, and creative collaboration on repressive

The Intellexa Alliance is the name of the shady group of European companies that supplies dictators and despots with cyberweapons. The mass spyware attacks have also been lucrative for some in...

A fix is long overdue for one of the most extensive, yet lesser-known surveillance risks of our age: the technical vulnerabilities at the heart of the world’s mobile communications networks.

Citizen Lab senior researcher Bill Marczak found the hacking of Princess Haya’s phone was so extensive that UAE agents had downloaded 265 megabytes of data

In 2022, the Citizen Lab gained extensive forensic visibility into new NSO Group exploit activity after finding infections among members of Mexico’s civil society, including two human rights defend...

Hanan Elatr says Saudi Arabia used NSO’s Pegasus spyware to track her and her husband’s whereabouts before he was murdered.

This is the first time a paper trail has emerged to prove definitively that the Mexican military spied on citizens who were trying to expose its misdeeds.

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Public and academic knowledge of cyber conflict relies heavily on data from commercial threat reporting. There are reasons to be concerned that these data provide a distorted view of cyber threat a...

Uncovering an extensive espionage operation infecting dozens of Thai pro-democracy campaigners with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware.

Our forensic analysis of two iPhones belonging to Hubbard found evidence of Pegasus infections in July 2020 and June 2021. Notably, these infections occurred after Hubbard reported in January 2020...

The Toronto-based researchers who reported that Israeli software was used to spy on WJamal Khashoggi's inner circle are being targeted in turn by international undercover operatives.

This report provides a comprehensive guide to geolocation-related threats sourced from 3G, 4G, and 5G network operators. Case studies, references, examples, and evidence are provided to give a...

Saturday’s main developments: Kyiv faces ‘a long fight’, US and European nations increase military support for Ukraine and thousands cross the border into Poland and Hungary

The documents provide an inside look at an Iranian government program that lets authorities monitor and manipulate Iran protesters’ mobile phones.

Kapral Karolina Marchlewska i podporucznik Joanna Jałocha, które kilka lat temu zgłosiły molestowanie seksualne przez przełożonych w Żandarmerii Wojskowej, były inwigilowane za pomocą systemu...

Several European states known to have acquired or deployed powerful foreign commercial surveillance tools have potentially used them illegally, according to a report released Friday by the Parliame...