Italy’s government said on Wednesday that seven mobile phone users in the country had been targeted by spyware on Meta Platforms’ (META.O), opens new tab WhatsApp messaging service, and it called the incident “particularly serious”. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s office said it asked the National Cybersecurity Agency to look into the affair, while denying any involvement, after…
A U.S. judge has ordered NSO Group to hand over its source code for Pegasus and other remote access trojans to Meta as part of the social media giant’s on-going litigation against the Israeli spyware vendor. The decision marks a major legal victory for Meta, which filed the lawsuit in October 2019 for using its infrastructure to distribute the spyware to approximately…
The United Kingdom and France will jointly host a diplomatic conference at Lancaster House in London this week in feb 2024, to launch a new international agreement addressing “the proliferation of commercial cyber intrusion tools.” According to the Foreign Office, 35 nations will be represented at the conference, alongside “big tech leaders, legal experts, and…
