Pegasus is spyware developed by Israeli firm NSO Group that covertly infects phones to extract data and surveil journalists, activists, and officials.
Poland's National Prosecutor's Office says the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau, which ran Pegasus, lacked full control of a system NSO Group operated. Investigators say NSO had technical access to harvested data but cannot say whether it obtained specific material.
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El Faro journalists have lost their Pegasus lawsuit against NSO Group for a second time after a California federal judge found no jurisdiction in the state. Pointing to compromised infrastructure in California did not tie a Salvadoran newsroom's case to the state's courts.
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Paragon CEO Andrew Boyd says the spyware maker cannot see whom its customers target, and that halting updates leaves their systems ineffective in about 12 hours. Its promise to drop abusive customers therefore waits on outsiders finding the abuse first.
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Paragon CEO Andrew Boyd says the spyware maker can't see who customers target, and withheld updates leave a customer's system ineffective in about 12 hours. Its zero-tolerance misuse policy depends on outside researchers to find abuse before that slow cutoff comes into play.
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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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SHARE Foundation, Citizen Lab and Amnesty confirmed three infections among at least 14 Serbian targets around the March local elections, and the Android half of the wave was installed by hand during police custody.
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At least three Turkish cabinet ministers turned up in Apple's latest mercenary spyware notification batch. Ankara's remediation ran ahead of any identification of the tool, and it may have to stay that way.
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A letter signed Friday turns device forensics on Serbian student activists into an enlargement demand, though the signatory who spoke to CyberScoop says spyware will not be the deciding factor if Brussels moves.
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Computer Weekly says a Czech firm rehacked France's EncroChat implant and found GitHub exploit code for Bad Binder, an Android bug unpatched in 2.5 billion phones. Lawyers expect a stalled UK case to restart.
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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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Matthew Green's argument is that backdoors lost and lawful access still won, by moving to device exploitation. That relocates the defender's problem from protocol design to fleet integrity.
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