Spyware attacks on journalists, human rights defenders, and political dissidents are no longer rare or exotic. In early 2025, WhatsApp notified roughly 90 users — many of them journalists and civil society members across Europe ...

In Brief Posted: 9:28 AM PDT · May 22, 2026 Image Credits:Win McNamee / Getty Images The merchandise website of FBI director Kash Patel was taken offline on Friday after reports that it had been ...

In Brief Posted: 7:30 AM PDT · May 22, 2026 Image Credits:Mandel NGAN / AFP / Getty Images Phone provider Trump Mobile has confirmed that it was exposing customers’ names, email addresses, mailing addresses, cell ...

An international coalition of law enforcement agencies announced Thursday that they took down a popular virtual private network service used by cybercriminals and arrested its administrator. The FBI said in an alert that First VPN ...

President Trump’s namesake cell phone provider and smartphone maker Trump Mobile is leaking customer data, including mailing addresses and email addresses, according to reports. On Tuesday, YouTubers Coffeezilla and penguinz0, who both said they ordered ...

In Brief Posted: 8:42 AM PDT · May 15, 2026 Image Credits:Alex Wong / Getty Images President Trump and a delegation of U.S. officials left Beijing on Friday after two days of high-level talks with ...

Earlier this week, hackers hijacked several open source projects used by dozens of companies and pushed updates designed to spread malware. This is the latest in a string of recent supply-chain attacks targeting software developers ...

Earlier this year, Donncha Ó Cearbhaill, a security researcher who investigates spyware attacks, found himself in an unusual position. For once, he became the target of hackers. “Dear User, this is Signal Security Support ChatBot. ...

In Brief Posted: 8:39 AM PDT · May 13, 2026 Image Credits:Cheng Xin / Getty Images Electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn, which makes devices and components for Apple, Google, Nvidia, and Sony, among other tech giants, ...

Google is rolling out a new opt-in feature in Android that aims to help security researchers investigate spyware attacks. The feature is called “Intrusion Logging” and is part of Android’s Advanced Protection Mode, which Google ...