Spyware risks have been rising fast in recent years, and although security firms always advise caution, the consensus has been that only a very small number of people are affected by the attacks.

Security firm iVerify said a leader of a big company was among several individuals whose iPhones were recently targeted with the Pegasus spyware. While journalists, human rights defenders, lawmakers, ...

The big picture: Pegasus spyware developed by Israeli cyber-intelligence firm NSO Group has been infecting Android and iOS devices for more than a decade. The sophisticated spy software is difficult ...

In a landmark court ruling, the creator of the infamous Pegasus spyware, NSO Group, has been ordered to pay $168 million in damages to WhatsApp. This decision comes after the company was found guilty ...

NSO Group makes spyware called Pegasus, which is sold to government and law enforcement agencies. The company purchases so-called zero-day vulnerabilities (ones that are unknown to Apple) from hackers ...

A U.S. federal judge has ruled that Israeli spyware maker NSO Group violated U.S. hacking laws by using WhatsApp zero-days to deploy Pegasus spyware on at least 1,400 devices. NSO Group markets ...

A pro-democracy and human rights activist has won the right to bring legal proceedings against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in a UK court after his phones were hacked by surveillance software. The High ...

A U.S. federal jury has ordered Israeli spyware vendor NSO Group to pay WhatsApp $167,254,000 in punitive damages and $444,719 in compensatory damages for a 2019 campaign that targeted 1,400 users of ...