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Amazon Web Services bans accounts linked with Pegasus spyware

The Verge

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has banned NSO Group, the company behind the Pegasus spyware program. Vice reported the ban this morning, the day after a sweeping report alleged Pegasus was used to target the phones of human rights activists and journalists. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Microsoft and Google join Facebook’s legal fight against infamous spyware vendor

The Verge

Facebook-owned WhatsApp sued the spyware vendor last year, alleging that its software was used to hack 1,400 devices via a vulnerability in the messaging service. Other companies listed on the filing include the Internet Association, and Microsoft subsidiaries GitHub and LinkedIn.

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NSO Group's Spyware Breached a Journalist's iPhone After Apple Sued

Gizmodo

NSO Group, the creepy spyware firm known for selling its services to authoritarian governments throughout the world, is in trouble again. A new report shows that the company’s most notorious malware, Pegasus, was used to hack the iPhone of a Jordanian journalist in December. The hack occurred several weeks after… Read more.

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NSO Group's Spyware May Have Been Used to Target U.S. State Department Officials

Gizmodo

Apple recently revealed a new policy that would notify users if their devices were the targets of a state-sponsored attack conducted using spyware from Israeli surveillance-for-hire firm NSO Group. Now, just weeks later, a new report from Reuters claims at least nine U.S. State Department officials found themselves on… Read more.

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Unsurprisingly, the NSO Group's Malware Is Targeting Activists Again

Gizmodo

The iPhones of nine Bahraini political activists were recently hacked using the NSO Group’s spyware Pegasus, according to a new report put out by researchers. Read more.

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US athletes told to use burner phones at Beijing Winter Olympics

The Verge

The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee is telling athletes to ditch their personal phones for burners ahead of next month’s Winter Olympics in China, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal (via Android Central ). Every device, communication, transaction and online activity may be monitored”.

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Fed Tech Roundup July 24

CTOvision

Advanced spyware for Android now available to script kiddies everywhere. Verisign Reports Second Quarter 2015 Results. Meet the Agents Who Staff the Secret Service Internet Threat Desk. Hortonworks Named to 2015 CRN Emerging Vendors List; Mitch Ferguson Comments. State Department Seeks Russian-speaking Social Media Maven.

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