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At least 30 political activists in Thailand have been hacked using Israeli surveillance spyware Pegasus, according to a joint investigation by human rights and cyber monitoring groups, which suspect the attacks were launched locally.

NGO investigation finds malware on the phones of 30 Thai activists, civil society leaders

Latest findings suggest Rwandan government has deployed surveillance campaign against relatives of Paul Rusesabagina

Cybersecurity researchers have found that Thai activists involved in the country’s pro-democracy protests had their cell phones or other devices infected and attacked with spyware

Thai government suspected of orchestrating hacking campaign using Israeli surveillance technology

A Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT) search engine has made it more challenging in North America to look up politically sensitive people for China, the Wall Street Journal reports. Citizen Lab consistently found that Bing censored politically sensitive Chinese names. Bing’s autofill system, which guesses based on searching after a few keystrokes, often fell silent…

Targeting of Catalan independence leaders and Spanish ministers must be independently investigated, says cybersecurity expert

Paz Esteban reportedly loses job after Catalan independence figures were said to have been targeted

The head of Spain’s National Intelligence Centre has admitted that the agency did in fact spy on 18 Catalan leaders with the approval of the…

Sources tell Spanish media spy chief told committee that 18 Catalan activists targeted with spyware

Spain's intelligence agency is facing growing criticism after the discovery that politicians had their phones hacked, even as far as the device in the prime minister's pocket