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Of the 67 phones Amnesty's Security Lab probed, 34 were iPhones, of which 23 showed signs of a successful Pegasus infection and the others showed attempts — The text delivered last month to the iPhone 11 of Claude Mangin, the French wife of a political activist jailed in Morocco, made no sound.
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| Bill Marczak / @billmarczak: |
[Thread] Amnesty International and Citizen Lab found zero-click iMessage exploits being deployed against iPhones, even with iOS 14.6, to install malware — THREAD with a couple of interesting bits from @AmnestyTech's new report on what they learned from looking for NSO Group's spyware on phones https://www.amnesty.org/...
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| Washington Post: |
Phones of 22 Indian people, who were on a list of hundreds, were checked and 7 had been infected with NSO malware; the list included top opposition politicians — NEW DELHI — A powerful surveillance tool licensed only to governments was used to infiltrate mobile phones belonging …
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| The Guardian: |
Snowden calls for spyware trade ban amid NSO news, saying the industry should not exist and “they don't make vaccines—the only thing they sell is the virus” — NSA whistleblower warns of world in which no phone is safe from state-sponsored hackers if no action taken
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Amnesty International, Techdirt, MediaNama, Globes Online, and TechRadar. Tweets: @ahmetasabanci
| Dana Priest / Washington Post: |
Investigation: Israel-based NSO Group's malware infected 23 phones belonging to government officials, reporters, execs, and activists, out of 67 checked — Dana Priest, a reporter at The Washington Post for 30 years, covers national security issues. Recently, she has investigated Russian …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
US, EU, UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, and NATO blame China for cyberattacks, including the massive attack on Microsoft's Exchange Servers in March — The U.S., NATO and other allies are collectively calling out China for malicious cyberattacks, including a March attack that exploited a flaw in Microsoft's Exchange Server.| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
DOJ unseals charges against four Chinese nationals, believed to be part of China-backed APT 40 hacking group; charging docs focus on activity from 2011 to 2018 — The US Department of Justice has indicted four Chinese nationals today for hacking companies, government agencies …
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| Maggie Fitzgerald / CNBC: |
Filing: Robinhood is looking to raise as much as $2.3B in its IPO and sets a range of $38-$42 per share at a valuation as high as $35B — (Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) … Robinhood is seeking a market valuation of as much as $35 billion …
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Tweets: @antoinegara, @jeffjohnroberts, @mkmfitzgerald, @jeffjohnroberts, and @mdudas
| Muvija M / Reuters: |
Tencent to buy British video game developer Sumo Games for $1.27B, a 43% premium on Sumo's Friday closing price — Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings (0700.HK) will buy video game company Sumo Group (SUMO.L) in a deal that values the British firm at 919 million pounds ($1.27 billion), the companies said on Monday.
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Tweets: @shjfrench, @geronimo_73, @zhugeex, @benjisales, and @byadamfitch
| GlobeNewswire News Room: |
Zoom says it will acquire Five9, which makes cloud-based call center software for sales, marketing, and support, in an all-stock deal valued at ~$14.7B — The combination of Zoom's robust communications platform with Five9's intelligent cloud contact center will enable organizations …
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Zoom Blog, New York Times, Protocol, Computerworld, PYMNTS.com, BBC, TechCrunch, Channel Futures, Associated Press, Light Reading, mobilesyrup.com, Coinspeaker, ZDNet, Engadget, cloudpro.co.uk, CRN, Sadagopan's weblog …, Finbold, VentureBeat, and WRAL TechWire
Tweets: @zoom, @thinking_stocks, @ericsyuan, @shivsharma_5, @jmanuele, and @jordannovet
| Andrew Restuccia / Wall Street Journal: |
Biden clarifies his Facebook criticism, says he meant top users spreading vaccine misinfo were “killing people”, and urges Facebook to reduce misinformation — President says company isn't to blame for deaths, but adds it needs to do more to stop social-media users from spreading falsities
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| Sohini Podder / Reuters: |
Julia Computing, which develops the Julia programming language for AI and data science applications, raises $24M Series A led by Dorilton Ventures — (Reuters) - Julia Computing raised $24 million in a funding round led by venture capital firm Dorilton Ventures and said Bob Muglia …
| Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer: |
1TB of data belonging to Saudi Aramco is for sale on the dark web, with some files dating back to 1993; the company blames the leak on 3rd-party contractors — Attackers have stolen 1 TB of proprietary data belonging to Saudi Aramco and are offering it for sale on the darknet.| Dr. Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
GlobalFoundries says it will spend ~$1B on expanding its largest chip fab, which is in Malta, NY, and create a new fab in Malta via a private-public partnership — Today at a private GlobalFoundies event, CEO Tom Caulfield accompanied by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, announced that the company is set on expansion.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Dover, which helps recruiters aggregate multiple candidate pools to source suitable job candidates automatically, raises $20M Series A led by Tiger Global — Despite being one of the earliest adopters of using the world wide web to disrupt how its business is done and connect with more potential customers …
Tweets: @anvishapai and @ycombinator
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