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NSO Group's spyware, referenced as a historically associated example rather than as attribution for this wave.
No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.
Paragon CEO Andrew Boyd says the spyware maker can't see who customers target, and withheld updates leave a customer's system ineffective in about 12 hours. Its zero-tolerance misuse policy depends on outside researchers to find abuse before that slow cutoff comes into play.
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Apple's latest mercenary spyware notifications went to users in 110 countries. The response checklist is per-person, and a standard MDM baseline covers almost none of it.
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Computer Weekly says a Czech firm rehacked France's EncroChat implant and found GitHub exploit code for Bad Binder, an Android bug unpatched in 2.5 billion phones. Lawyers expect a stalled UK case to restart.
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Thursday's round of Apple threat notifications reached targets in 110 countries, and the delivery change is the lesson: an alert sent to an inbox is one you have to hope someone opens.
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Matthew Green's argument is that backdoors lost and lawful access still won, by moving to device exploitation. That relocates the defender's problem from protocol design to fleet integrity.
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