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The NSO Group company logo is displayed on a wall of a building next to one of their branches in the southern Israeli Arava valley near Sapir community centre on February 8, 2022. NSO Group currently has 39 legal cases against it due to the fallout around its Pegasus spyware product. (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

Legal barriers complicate justice for spyware victims

Some recent court rulings show the difficult road of anti-spyware litigation, but those in the fight also see signs of promise.
Congolese soldiers sit in their military vehicle at the base of the United Nations Organization Mission for the Stabilization of the Congo (MONUSCO) in Kamanyola, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on Feb. 28. (Photo by Glody MURHABAZI / AFP)

Predator spyware resurfaces with signs of activity, Recorded Future says

Sanctions and public exposure might have driven Intellexa into silence for months, but that doesn’t mean its Predator spyware is gone for good.
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Mongolian guards stand guard in front of the Genghis Khan statue at the Government Palace in Ulaanbaatar on May 21, 2023. The hackers allegedly conducted watering hole attacks on Mongolian government websites.(Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Google: apparent Russian hackers play copycat to commercial spyware vendors

The attack campaigns show how spyware tech companies have become more akin to nation-state threat actors.
A woman passes by flags of the European Union outside the European commission headquarters in Brussels, on May 23, 2024, ahead of the upcoming European Parliament elections. (Photo by Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD / AFP / Getty Images)

Phones of journalists and activists in Europe targeted with Pegasus

The notorious Israeli spyware was used to target journalists often working in exile from their authoritarian home countries, report finds. 
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