Apple sends spyware warnings to iPhone users in 100 countries

Apple has been warning possible victims of spyware attacks, according to several alleged recipients of the messages. At the time of writing there appears to be at least two people who have confirmed t [...]

WhatsApp claims that 100 journalists and activists were the targets of Israeli-made spyware

WhatsApp has claimed that some users were “possibly compromised” by spyware, according to a report by The Guardian. The Meta-owned messaging app went on to allege that nearly 100 journalists and a [...]

Court reduces damages Meta will get from spyware maker NSO Group but bans it from WhatsApp

US District Judge Phyllis Hamilton has reduced the damages Meta is getting from the NSO Group from $167 million to $4 million, but she has also ordered the Israeli spyware maker to stop targeting What [...]

Apple doubles its biggest bug bounty reward to $2 million

Apple is updating its Security Bounty program this November to offer some of the highest rewards in the industry. It has doubled its top award from $1 million to $2 million for the discovery of " [...]

Meta wins more than $167 million in damages from spyware maker that targeted WhatsApp

A jury has ruled that the company behind the infamous Pegasus spyware must pay Meta more than $167 million in damages for spreading malware via WhatsApp. The ruling is a major victory for Meta after a [...]

Apple may have found a fix for mercenary spyware attacks – and iPhone 17 and iPhone Air users get the most of new protections

Apple believes that its newly launched Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) is the "most significant upgrade to memory safety in the history of consumer operating systems." [...]

WhatsApp just caught an Italian spyware firm building a fake version of its app for iPhones

WhatsApp has notified approximately 200 users, primarily in Italy, that they were tricked into installing a counterfeit version of the messaging app that was actually government spyware. The fake appl [...]

Pegasus hack of the EU’s own spyware investigator sparks calls for urgent action

Pressure is mounting on the European Commission to act on spyware, after forensic evidence showed one of the EU’s own spyware investigators was hacked with Pegasus. Civil society groups issued a jo [...]

AI models block 87% of single attacks, but just 8% when attackers persist

One malicious prompt gets blocked, while ten prompts get through. That gap defines the difference between passing benchmarks and withstanding real-world attacks — and it's a gap most enterprise [...]