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Cyber experts offer lukewarm praise for voluntary code governing use of commercial hacking tools

The Pall Mall Process guidelines for nations could be useful, they said, but have obvious limitations.

Apr 10, 2025 By Tim Starks

Students, behind a banner reading “15 minutes for 15 lives,” block a street in Belgrade on Dec. 12, standing in silence to honor the 15 victims of the tragedy that occurred at the railway station in Novi Sad in November. (Photo by Andrej ISAKOVIC / AFP)

Amnesty International exposes Serbian police’s use of spyware on journalists, activists

The comprehensive report showed how Serbian law enforcement combined Cellebrite’s tech with a novel Android-focused spyware program.

Dec 16, 2024 By Tim Starks

Safe Mode

Supercomputers for AI and the proliferation of commercial spyware

Rasha Abdul Rahim, Director, Amnesty Tech at Amnesty International

Nov 30, 2023 By CyberScoop Staff

An Israeli woman uses her iPhone in front of the building housing the Israeli NSO group, on August 28, 2016, in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv. – (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Bahrain hacked activists’ iPhones with NSO Group spyware, Citizen Lab says

The new research raises concerns about iOS security.

Aug 24, 2021 By Tonya Riley