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Industry of vendors like NSO Group, Cytrox, Intellexa and Paragon that sell phone-hacking spyware to governments, often targeting journalists and activists.
Confiant says an ad from Discover-Tech, caught by its scanner on April 12, 2026, handed off to infrastructure Citizen Lab attributes to Candiru. The script request alone gives the operator the device's advertising ID, IP address and OS.
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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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Paragon, maker of the Graphite spyware, will go public through a Nasdaq SPAC merger at a $1.25 billion pre-money enterprise value. The price rests on $267 million in revenue, up 29%, earned jointly with REDLattice, a contractor to US defense and government agencies.
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IRIS C2 found a kernel extension named EndpointSecuritySE in an iOS build Apple released to developers on September 16, along with the entitlement and research-mode checks that decide which clients may read its events.
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Wyden and Casar want a public review of federal hacking, spyware purchases and Rule 41 warrants. Wiretaps produce an annual report; 25 years of hacking has never produced one.
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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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