Long Read | Immigration Policy: The Backdoor to Transnational Repression - The Foreign Policy Centre

Democratic governments are stepping up efforts to combat transnational repression, but restrictive immigration policies may inadvertently help authoritarian regimes target dissidents.

fpc.org.uk

Bahrain loses bid to block dissidents' spyware lawsuit in UK

Bahrain cannot claim state immunity to block a lawsuit brought in Britain by two ​dissidents who say its government hacked their laptops with ‌spyware, the United Kingdom's Supreme Court ruled on Mond...

reuters.com

Silicon Valley Splits Over Closing the Borders to Chinese A.I.

Anthropic and OpenAI are clashing with the rest of the tech industry over whether “open-source” models from China should be freely available or restricted.

nytimes.com

Canadian government urged to block data-sharing deal between Thomson Reuters and US ICE

ICE will pay Canadian media giant US$125m to use its investigative database to identify ‘immigration fraud’

theguardian.com

OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked Hugging Face

The cybersecurity-focused models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, broke out of a testing sandbox, exploited a zero-day, and gained access to the open internet to pull off the attack.

wired.com

Trump Administration Sought Phone Records of Times Journalists and Their Relatives

The government is aggressively seeking the confidential sources of Times reporters who wrote about the president’s new Air Force One. The Times has asked a judge to quash the subpoenas.

nytimes.com

IPhone Hacking Firm Sues Ex-Worker Over Alleged Theft of Secrets

Magnet Forensics Inc., a Canadian cybersecurity firm, accused a former contractor of sharing trade secrets about a previously unknown flaw used to hack iPhones with a rival firm.

bloomberg.com

They wanted to hold Exxon accountable. Then they got hacked.

A decade after climate activists' emails were breached, a court case is shedding new light on who allegedly orchestrated the hacking.

grist.org

Federal Court Suspends Trump Immigration Policy Targeting Technology Researchers

knightcolumbia.org

Times Journalists Subpoenaed as Trump Escalates Pressure on Media (Gift Article)

The Justice Department is seeking to compel testimony from reporters who wrote about the new Air Force One. The Times called the move a “brazen act.”

nytimes.com

Greek wiretapping victims sue spyware firm Intellexa for damages

Eight victims of a Greek wiretapping scandal have sued the Athens-based surveillance firm Intellexa SA and individuals believed to be linked to it, seeking €1 ​million ($1.1 million) each for moral ha...

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Taiwanese authorities charge executives who helped China’s cyber spies target ICIJ network - ICIJ

The Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau probe corroborates ICIJ and Citizen Lab’s findings that attacks against journalists were part of a coordinated espionage campaign sponsored by Beijing.

icij.org

EU urged to act after Pegasus infects phone of spyware inquiry MEP

Campaigners demand investigation and long-delayed action on PEGA Committee recommendations

theregister.com

Joint Statement: Pegasus in the European Parliament, the EU Must Act Now

CDT Europe is publishing a joint statement with civil society organisations and individual signatories calling on the EU institutions to regulate spyware technologies after the 2026 Citizen Lab revela...

cdt.org

https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/same-government-more-victims-access-now-calls-for-an-urgent-investigation-into-hacking-of-mep/

t.co

Probe finds former MEP investigating Pegasus was hacked with Pegasus

The revelation raises questions about whether the work of the Parliament’s inquiry committee was compromised.

politico.eu

Former European Parliament Member Stelios Kouloglou Targeted by Pegasus While Probing Europe's Illegal Surveillance Scandal - Dnews

Kouloglou's mobile phone was infected at least twice with Pegasus, the sophisticated spyware developed by the Israeli company NSO Group. New findings have added a troubling twist to Europe's...

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Politician who investigated spyware abuses had his phone hacked with Pegasus spyware | TechCrunch

A government customer of NSO Group used the company's Pegasus spyware to hack into the phone of a European politician, who at the time was serving on an EU committee tasked with investigating the spyw...

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Spyware found on phone of European Parliament member probing it

Stelios Kouloglou, formerly a member of the European Parliament's committee investigation abuses of commercial spyware, was twice infected with Pegasus while serving, researchers said.

therecord.media

EU Politicians Investigated Pegasus Spyware. Then It Ended Up on One of Their Phones

“It is a direct attack on the rule of law,” says one European Parliament member of the new findings from Citizen Lab.

wired.com

Researchers say EU lawmaker who investigated surveillance was hacked by Israeli spyware

A former member of the European Parliament who served ​on a committee investigating abusive surveillance was himself hacked using an Israeli-made spy tool, a Canadian tech watchdog group ‌said on Frid...

reuters.com

Greek Politician Investigating Spyware Had Mobile Phone Hacked

The mobile phone of a Greek politician was repeatedly hacked by spyware while he was working on a European Parliament investigation into sellers of the surveillance technology, new research has found.

bloomberg.com

L’eurodéputé Stelios Kouloglou chargé d’enquêter sur Pegasus lui-même visé par le logiciel espion

Des analyses menées sur le téléphone de l’ancien élu grec ont révélé des traces d’« infection » par le logiciel de NSO Group, alors qu’il participait à une commission d’enquête sur ce puissant mouchar...

lemonde.fr

Spyware used against MEP investigating Pegasus abuses, report finds

Researchers say Stelios Kouloglou’s device was compromised after he joined European parliamentary committee

theguardian.com