Pegasus spyware was used to track journalists, lawyers and activists in Jordan from 2019 to late 2021. Some specific incidents occurred on iPhones after Apple had sued NSO Group and removed exploits.
A new consumer privacy act has been signed into law in Utah and takes effect as 2023 ends, the fourth state bill of this nature to be passed. It is the most business-friendly of the bunch.
The Hydra darknet market with an estimated annual turnover of $1.35 billion was taken down. It had about 17 million users and 19,000 registered seller accounts prior to the bust.
The FBI software is used for keyword-based social media tracking and advertises a "predictive analytics" feature, leading to natural questions about its potential use for surveillance.
Europol, Latvian, and Lithuanian police arrested 108 suspects involved in an international investment scam operation in 3 call centers located in Riga and Vilnius. Operation makes €3 million in profit per month.
Anonymous hacking group leaked a 28 GB data dump containing 35,000 files stolen from the Russia Central Bank in retaliation against the country's invasion of Ukraine.
Hackers recently gained access to internal tools at leading email marketing platform Mailchimp, and made use of them in targeted phishing attacks on owners of crypto wallets.
Globant SAS confirmed a data breach affecting a "limited" number of customers after Lapsus$ hackers published 70GB of source code allegedly stolen from the company. Screenshots suggested that the leaked customer source code belonged to companies like Apple, Facebook and DHL.
EU rules that would force all movements of cryptocurrency to be traceable by law enforcement authorities are moving forward, which could put an end to anonymous crypto transactions in the region.
Survey expressing anti-Microsoft sentiment was paid for in part and published by Google Cloud. It polled 2,600 currently employed residents of the US, 338 of these government employees.
