spyware
In collaboration with the SHARE Foundation, the Citizen Lab confirmed that the iPhone of a member of Serbia’s student protest movement was infected with Pegasus spyware.
Last month, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom issued a highly anticipated decision in The Kingdom of Bahrain v. Shehabi and another (Shehabi). The claimants, two Bahraini dissidents living in the U.K., allegedly suffered psychological harm after Bahrain used FinSpy spyware to hack into their devices. In an important step towards accountability, the court […]
Apple customers in 110 countries received threat notifications recently alerting them to suspected spyware attacks targeting their devices.
The OCCRP found that the co-founder of NSO Group, which develops Pegasus spyware, travelled to Panama in 2013 on an Israeli diplomatic passport.
We found that former Member of the European Parliament Stelios Kouloglou was hacked with Pegasus spyware while serving on the PEGA committee, which investigated Pegasus and other spyware abuses in Europe. Through forensic analysis of his device, we found that the attackers could have had access to confidential documents and committee deliberations.
Meta’s WhatsApp said it will ask a US court to hold NSO Group in contempt for using WhatsApp to lure targets into downloading the surveillance spyware.
Senior legal advisor Siena Anstis and senior researcher John Scott-Railton spoke with Forbes about the lagging safeguards that let spyware proliferate.
Senior researcher Luis Fernando García participated in a Conversatorio Regional hosted by CELS, ODIA, Democracia en Red, and Vía Libre.
Citizen Lab director Ron Deibert gave a keynote speech about the Greek spyware scandal at an event hosted by Eteron think tank in Athens in May.
This event is hosted by the National Cybersecurity Consortium. Join Citizen Lab director Ron Deibert at the National Cybersecurity Consortium 2026 Conference in Montreal on June 18. He will be speaking on a panel called “Spyware and Safeguards: Surveillance Tech and the Future of Digital Rights,” discussing the risks of the proliferating spyware industry.