Digital rights group that runs the Digital Security Helpline, offering free emergency support to activists, journalists, and civil society facing cyber threats.
US prosecutors charged Oxygen Forensics' CEO and a co-founder with hiding that five Russians owned the forensic firm and that its software was Russian-built. Police in seven EU states bought or accredited the tool, two of them this September.
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Apple's latest mercenary spyware notifications went to users in 110 countries. The response checklist is per-person, and a standard MDM baseline covers almost none of it.
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Apple told TechCrunch it warned selected users across 110 countries on Thursday. For any org with journalists, diplomats or executives on iOS, the hardened profile is no longer an edge case.
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Access Now says helpline requests ran 30% to 40% above the usual post-notification surge, a record. Among the recipients: a Ukrainian soldier who assumed the alert was a scam.
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Federal authorities arrested Oxygen Forensics' CEO and CTO, alleging they hid Russian ownership to win over $2 million in Secret Service work. DOJ does not allege malicious code, so agencies running the tool are left weighing who controls it and the same software's sale to Russia's FSB.
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Reporting attributes three civilian deaths in Zaporizhzhia to a drone that chose its own target, and the evidence trail ends at a consumer compute module the vendor says it cannot track after sale.
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Thursday's round of Apple threat notifications reached targets in 110 countries, and the delivery change is the lesson: an alert sent to an inbox is one you have to hope someone opens.
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