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Security researchers said Thursday they found two kinds of commercial spyware on the phone of a leading exiled Egyptian dissident, providing new evidence of the depth and diversity of the abusive hacker-for-hire industry.

BOSTON—Security researchers said Thursday they found two kinds of commercial spyware on the phone of a leading exiled Egyptian dissident, providing new evidence of the depth and diversity of the abusive hacker-for-hire industry. One piece of malware recently found on an iPhone belonging to Ayman Nour, a dissident and 2005…

Metas operation marks a major step in efforts against the sprawling surveillance industry that is sadly becoming more “democratized” and easily accessible.

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN Cybersecurity researchers from Facebook and a university have exposed a vast network of activity from surveillance-for-hire firms

Meta has banned accounts linked to seven entities for conducting ?surveillance-for-hire? operations against some 50,000 users. One of the purged firms is t

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Others called out by Meta include BellTroX, an Indian cyber mercenary firm exposed by Reuters and the internet watchdog Citizen Lab last year.

Security researchers said Thursday they found two kinds of commercial spyware on the phone of a leading exiled Egyptian dissident, providing new evidence of the depth and diversity of the abusive hacker-for-hire industry. One piece of malware recently found on an iPhone belonging to Ayman Nour, a dissident and 2005 Egyptian presidential candidate who subsequently…

Meta removed a total of about 1,500 accounts that used a combination of reconnaissance, engagement and exploitation to indiscriminately target people in more than 100 countries

Facebook parent Meta on Thursday banned a series of “cybermercenary” groups, and began alerting 50,000 people likely targeted by the firms accused of spying on rights advocates, dissidents and journalists worldwide. Meta took down 1,500 Facebook and Instagram pages linked to groups with services allegedly ranging from scooping up public information online to using fake personas to build trust with targets or digital snooping through hack attacks. The social media giant also started warning a...