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Congress wants to know who is using spyware against the US

A 2021 intelligence funding draft bill mandates a report on surveillance vendors and which countries or other actors are using spyware.

Android apps are snooping on other software on your device – and that could tell shady advertising companies more about you than you’d like.

The company left a server open and unprotected, regurgitating private data slurped from thousands of surveilled people, including children.

This follow-up sextortion demand, timed to align with Christmas, has a much more aggressive and menacing tone that last week’s version.

This “I am well aware” email is just another sextortion scam where crooks try to blackmail you with a video they don’t actually have.

The spyware gave complete control of victimized computers, sold for as little as$25, and was bought by 14,500 hackers worldwide.

It was sucking up private profiles by requiring users to hand over their logins, giving it access to whatever accounts they follow.

WhatsApp has publicly attributed the attack on its users in May 2019 to the Israeli spyware makers, NSO Group.

It’s the first time we’ve gone after a stalking app, the FTC said. In this case, that would be a stalking app that got breached – twice.

Amnesty International, which was sent the Pegasus spyware via a WhatsApp message, is seeking to stop NSO Group’s “web of surveillance.”