24 July, 2021, 2:07 pm
I have written a lot in recent months on cyberattacks, ransomware and cyberespionage by suspected Russian, Chinese and Iranian nation state actors.
Even the US has not been spared – Edward Snowden’s 2013 disclosure of highly classifi ed National Security Agency (NSA) documents revealed the agency’s ability to tap the electronic communications of almost anyone and triggered an international boom in spyware development and deployment.
Today’s thriving international spyware industry dates back decades, but got a boost af- ter the unprecedented 2013 disclosure of highly classified NSA documents by contractor Ed- ward Snowden.
They revealed that the NSA could obtain the electronic communications of almost anyone because it had secret access to the transnational cables carrying internet traffi c world- wide and data from internet companies such as Google and giant telecommunications compa- nies such as AT&T, Sprint and others.
Pegasus spyware revelation indicates Indian state snooping on journalists, activists and politicians
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