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A leaked iPhone exploit kit called DarkSword is being used by a Chinese threat actor to infect devices across 100 websites. Victims visit a fake AWS or Apple login page. No tap required. The implant dumps iCloud credentials, Wi-Fi passwords, and files.
Chinese Threat Actor Uses Leaked DarkSword Kit to Deploy GHOSTBLADE on iOS
An unknown Chinese threat actor runs leaked DarkSword across 100-plus web properties, using fake AWS and Apple logins to deploy GHOSTBLADE on iOS.
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NYPD used facial recognition to identify a protester who splashed paint on a statue at Columbia University. The suspect was masked in the main footage. One camera caught them unmasked nearby.
NYPD Used High-Tech Surveillance to Find Gaza Paint Splatter Protester, Docs Show
Throwing paint on a Columbia statue seems minor, but the NYPD uses tremendous resources when pro-Palestine protesters are in the crosshairs.
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The UK Home Office dropped its original iCloud backdoor demand after a diplomatic row with Washington. Then it issued a new one. Narrower scope. UK users only. Apple challenged that one too. #privacy #HumanRights #GhostWire
Apple challenges UK government’s latest demand for iCloud backdoor: report | TechCrunch
Apple has appealed a new legal demand by the U.K. government, which critics say could threaten the privacy rights of users all over the world.
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FISA Section 702 allows warrantless electronic surveillance of foreign nationals. American data gets swept up. Congress must renew it by March 2027. There is no vote scheduled to reform it.
Lack of FISA reform lets federal govt surveil 'entire communities' with AI
(The Center Square) – As Congress plans to reauthorize a major government surveillance authority, privacy advocates say that failing to enact reforms would allow the federal government to spy on
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When you reboot an iPhone running iOS 26 a key forensic log is overwritten. The shutdown.log had been the primary way security researchers detected Pegasus and Predator infections. It no longer works.
Key IOCs for Pegasus and Predator Spyware Cleaned With iOS 26 Update
iOS 26 changes how shutdown logs are handled, erasing key evidence of Pegasus and Predator spyware, creating new challenges for forensic investigators
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Between 2014 and 2025 US government requests to Google Apple and Meta for user data grew by 770 percent. Six point seven million accounts were disclosed including requests under FISA that most people will never hear about.
Big Tech Handed 6.7 Million User Accounts to the Government
Proton research reveals government data requests to Google, Apple, and Meta surged 770% in a decade.
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Surveillance is no secret, are you up to date with the tech? Even John Oliver is talking about it.
Police Surveillance Technology: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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Money = Influence. The people are not shaping the USA, foreign money is shaping the USA. www.youtube.com/shorts/C3gz9...
The Billionaire Oligarchs Pushing For War With Iran
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On January 8 2026 Iran imposed its most sophisticated internet blackout yet. It lasted four and a half months. Ninety-two million people were cut off. Starlink was blocked in affected areas. VPNs were powerless.
Iran’s internet blackout tightens information chokehold amid spreading protests - Committee to Protect Journalists
Iranian authorities have imposed a near-total internet shutdown as nationwide protests intensify, severely restricting journalists’ ability to report and cutting off communication with the outside world. The blackout began on January 8, more than a week after protests erupted in late December over mounting economic pressure, currency devaluation, and rising living costs. Journalists and rights...
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Proton and Constella Intelligence found 116000 instances of New York Times Wall Street Journal and Washington Post employees' data on the dark web. More than 35000 individual email addresses exposed.
Exclusive: Thousands of journalists’ data exposed to dark web
More than half of the exposures contained personal information such as names, phone numbers, dates of birth, and addresses, per a new study from Proton.
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ICE spent two million dollars on Graphite: a zero-click spyware from Paragon Solutions. It can access messages photos location camera and microphone without any user interaction. Deployed domestically in drug investigations from April 2026.
Paragon Graphite: The $2M Spyware ICE Uses to Hack Your Phone
ICE contracted Israeli spyware firm Paragon to use Graphite, zero-click malware that can access Signal, WhatsApp, and every app on your phone.
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Two Bahraini dissidents living in London sued Bahrain's government for hacking their devices with FinSpy. Bahrain claimed it could not be taken to a British court. The Supreme Court disagreed.
Dissidents win in Supreme Court against Bahrain appeal
Bahraini dissidents have won a Supreme Court case against Bahrain after the court rejected a claim of sovereign immunity from allegations it used spyware.
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In January 2026 the House Oversight Committee voted to subpoena investigative journalist Seth Harp. He had published the identity of a US special forces commander involved in Venezuela operations. Congress wanted to know his sources.
CPJ calls on U.S. House Committee to drop Seth Harp subpoena - Committee to Protect Journalists
Washington, D.C., January 13, 2026– The Committee to Protect Journalist calls on the U.S. House Oversight Committee to drop its subpoena of investigative journalist Seth Harp and calls on the Justice Department to refrain from pursuing criminal charges against Harp in relation to his work. Harp published to X a photograph and biography of an officer he reported was...
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Flock Safety cameras read every licence plate that passes and upload the data to a police database shared across jurisdictions. @eff.org has documented misuse: wrongful detentions officers stalking ex-partners data shared without local authorisation.
We're Fighting Mass Surveillance Tech—and Winning
People around the world are pushing back against the mass surveillance that undermines privacy and free expression for everyone. You can help during EFF's spring membership drive.
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Myanmar's military junta began mandatory IMEI registration in March 2026. Every mobile device must be linked to its owner's national ID and SIM card. The tri-linkage gives the state a complete map of who holds every phone and where.
RSF's 2026 World Press Freedom Index is at a 25-year low. A separate RSF report documents how governments now use national security laws as the primary tool to suppress journalism: device seizure source prosecution detention and exile.
New RSF Report: National Security as a Weapon Against Journalism
In the name of national security, journalists are being prosecuted, imprisoned, surveilled, forced into exile and even killed. In its new report, “National Security as a Weapon Against Journalism,” Reporters Without Borders (RSF) illustrates how the concept of national security has strayed far beyond its original purpose and become a tool of repression against journalism around the world. The report examines this global drift and sets out ten practical recommendations to ensure the long-term protection of press freedom.
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Before August 2024 Telegram had fulfilled 14 government requests covering 108 users in total. By the end of 2025 data on over 20000 users had been handed to governments. After Durov's arrest the compliance rate changed entirely.
Telegram’s growing mountain of data requests
Telegram’s transparency reporting bot suggests their compliance with data requests from authorities has exploded between 2024 and 2025.
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Russia's digital censorship reached a new level in 2026. WhatsApp is blocked. VPN services are being systematically cut at the network layer. The state-owned MAX app now serves as the official replacement.
Behind the curtain. A comprehensive guide to Russia’s internet censorship in 2026—and what life feels like inside it
Shutdowns, blocks, surveillance, and a messenger nobody trusts: how Russia’s internet censorship machine works today
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Pakistan's cybercrime agency summoned journalist Asad Ali Toor on July 31 under PECA Section 26A. Up to three years in prison for spreading false information. He challenged the notice at the Islamabad High Court. The court ordered the agency to specify its allegations first.
Asad Ali Toor summoned by NCCIA under PECA Section 26A
NCCIA has summoned journalist Asad Ali Toor under PECA Section 26A to record a July 31 statement over alleged false information; press bodies criticised it.
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Nigeria's DSS seized freelance journalist Zainab Sodiq's drone at Lagos airport on July 6. Then the agency called and invited her to Abuja to collect it back.
Journalist Detained After DSS Lured Her to Abuja to Retrieve Seized Drone - Media Rights Agenda
Ms Zainab Sodiq, a journalist who covers the daily activities of Mr Omoyele Sowore, activist, publisher of Sahara Reporters, and former presidential candidate
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Hong Kong police raided two Mong Kok bookstores on July 15 and arrested five people, including two journalists. The charge: displaying and selling publications with seditious content under the National Security Ordinance.
Hong Kong arrests 2 journalists in latest sedition case targeting independent bookstores - Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, July 16, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Hong Kong authorities to immediately release freelance journalists and booksellers Sum Wan-wah and Mandy Lau and end their escalating crackdown on independent publishing in the city, following the second such incident in less than a month. On July 15, Hong Kong police said its...
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Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal returned from Tehran on July 13. CBP stopped him at Dulles and demanded he unlock two iPhones containing years of protected newsgathering. He refused. Both phones were seized for forensic extraction.
ADC sues DHS Secretary Mullin over illegal CBP seizure of Max Blumenthal’s devices - The Grayzone
“Just because someone is reentering the country does not mean their constitutional rights evaporate," declared ADC President Jenin Younes. The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) filed a time-sensitive motion in the Eastern District of Virginia’s federal court on behalf of journalist Max Blumenthal, seeking the immediate return of two smartphones unlawfully seized and retained by U.S. Customs and
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Researchers at the Knight First Amendment Institute documented what digital transnational repression actually does to its targets. Not arrests. Not device seizures. The effects before any of that: self-censorship isolation and quitting.
Silenced by Surveillance: The Impacts of Digital Transnational Repression on Journalists, Human Rights Defenders, and Dissidents in Exile
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Canada's Bill C-22 would force electronic service providers to build surveillance backdoors and retain one year of user metadata. Apple said it will never build backdoors. Signal said it would leave Canada rather than comply.
A US court ordered NSO Group to pay $167 million in punitive damages in October 2025. Within months WhatsApp detected two new Pegasus campaigns against its users. February and April 2026. Both in clear violation of the permanent court injunction.
WhatsApp seeks contempt ruling against spyware company NSO Group for continued targeting of WhatsApp users - Business and Human Rights Centre
Check out this page via the Business and Human Rights Centre
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@amnesty.org published its most detailed technical analysis of Pegasus on July 16. The source: internal NSO Group engineering documents and sworn testimony that entered the public record through the WhatsApp lawsuit.
Inside Pegasus: The evolution of the world's most notorious spyware system - Amnesty International Security Lab
We are presenting here our most complete analysis to date of the Pegasus spyware. This blog post builds on previous technical reports and forensic investigations by Amnesty International’s Security Lab. Significantly it also draws on previously unpublished internal NSO Group marketing material and internal technical material which was disclosed as part of a long-running civil […]
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A Forbidden Stories investigation published July 16 included testimony from a former Moroccan intelligence officer describing how the government deployed Pegasus from 2017 onward. Co-published by Le Monde, Haaretz, the Guardian, and Middle East Eye.
Moroccan whistleblower reveals how Rabat used Israel's Pegasus spyware for surveillance
Testimony from intelligence insider and leaked records show extensive use of spyware against dissidents and foreign officials
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