Congress Probes Trump Administration's Commercial Spyware Ties

Rep. Summer Lee is raising red flags about the Trump Administration's cozy ties to commercial spyware, specifically its willingness to let US investment flow into sanctioned companies like NSO Group and use their tools to infiltrate cell phones. She's demanding answers from the Commerce Department about its role in these dealings.

https://osintsights.com/congress-probes-trump-administrations-commercial-spyware-ties?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#CommercialSpyware #NsoGroup #UsCongress #CapitolHill #GovernmentSurveillance

Civil society groups accuse NSO Group of using the Pall Mall Process to legitimize spyware practices.

Pegasus-linked abuses reportedly continue.

https://www.technadu.com/spyware-vendors-pall-mall-claims-trigger-civil-society-backlash/619504/

#InfoSec #Spyware #HumanRights #NSOGroup #CyberPolicy

An popular idea in #OS development now is that the ideal system would have a #sandbox that allows users to install even untrusted apps safely. It is important to point out that this is pure fantasy. No system has ever come close to providing a sandbox good enough for that standard (e.g. #NSOGroup has maintained zero-click exploits to #iOS and #Android for years now). Having pure fantasy as a goal means other features will be broken in the name of trying to achieve the unachievable

#security

WhatsApp wprowadza tryb lockdown – nowe zabezpieczenie dla prywatności

Kiedy ostatni raz czułeś, że ktoś puka do Twoich prywatnych rozmów od frontu i od piwnicy naraz? WhatsApp właśnie dorzuca zasuwę: tryb „lockdown” dla kont szczególnie narażonych na spyware.

Czytaj dalej:
https://pressmind.org/whatsapp-wprowadza-tryb-lockdown-nowe-zabezpieczenie-dla-prywatnosci/

#PressMindLabs #nsogroup #rust #spyware #strictaccountsettings #tryblockdown

#AmReading Chasing Shadows: Cyber Espionage, Subversion, and the Global Fight for Democracy.

Written by @rondeibert, founder and director of Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, the book recounts how Citizen Lab grew from an upstart research group to a major force in exposing cyber mercenaries (most of them the spawn of Israel's notorious Unit 8200).

It's frankly terrifying.

#Books #Bookstodon #NSOGroup #PegasusSpyware #Spyware #CitizenLab

https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/04/citizen-lab/#nso-group

@CStamp
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#Trump didn't like the #ABCTV reporter...

Asking about #JamalKhashoggi being murdered in 2018, by Saudi agents means #Trump insults and calls your employer #fakenews⁉️

Crown Prince of #SaudiArabia Mohammed bin Salman #MBS denied ordering it despite #CIA evidence that he was in the loop, informed

Hanan Elatr #Khashoggi says it was #nsogroup #spyware on her phone that was used
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware)

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#MSNOW Chris Jansing Nov 18 2025