European police email 75,000 people asking them to stop DDoS attacks | TechCrunch Europol coordinated an operation against for-hire distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) services, including the arrest of four people and the takedown of 53 domains.

NEW: Cops send emails and letters to hackers: please stop hackin'.

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How Push Notifications Can Betray Your Privacy (and What to Do About It) A phone’s push notifications can contain a significant amount of information about you, your communications, and what you do throughout the day. They’re important enough to government investigations t...

Your push notifications can betray your privacy. Here are the settings you can enable to do something about that: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Notifications for deleted shouldn't remain in any OS notification database, and we've asked Apple to address this.

In the meantime, you can prevent any preview text from your Signal messages from appearing in your notifications.

Signal Settings > Notifications > Show “No Name or Content”

Here's the original report (paywalled): www.thetimes.com/world/middle...

"The 🇺🇸CIA used Israeli-made #Pegasus software to carry out a deception campaign in 🇮🇷Iran amid the effort to retrieve the second of two downed US airmen last weekend, the Times of London reported."

www.timesofisrael.com/cia-reported...

“🇬🇷Greek newspaper @tovimagr.bsky.social has reported that a previously undisclosed memorandum of cooperation was signed between a consortium involving the spyware-linked company Intellexa and a technology unit of Greece’s National Intelligence Service.”

www.dnews.gr/eidhseis/new...

Anthropic’s Mythos Will Force a Cybersecurity Reckoning—Just Not the One You Think The new AI model is being heralded—and feared—as a hacker’s superweapon. Experts say its arrival is a wake-up call for developers who have long made security an afterthought.

NEW: Everyone, chill. @lhn.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/anthro...

Report by @netzpolitik.org on @vsquare.bsky.social / @citizenlab.ca investigation into Hungary's use of Cobwebs' ADINT platform for mass surveillance

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Chair Magdalena Sroka said evidence indicates part of the system was held by an Israeli manufacturer – a finding she says could imply data exposure to Israeli intelligence.

🇵🇱Poland’s #Pegasus inquiry has concluded hearings after nearly two years of work and is drafting its final report, due to be published in April.

➡️The report will include a public section and a classified part for a limited group of recipients, including MPs.

jedynka.polskieradio.pl/artykul/3671...

Trenchant Exec Says He Had Depression, Money Troubles When He Decided to Sell Zero Days to Russian Buyer; Also, New Info Reveals Nature of His Work for Australian Intelligence Agency Peter Joseph Williams, a former L3 Trenchant executive recently convicted of secretly selling zero-day exploits to a Russian broker, says he was suffering anxiety, burnout, years of depression, and fi...

Peter Williams says he was suffering anxiety, burnout, years of depression, and financial difficulties when he decided to steal exploits from his US employer L3 Trenchant & sell them to a 🇷🇺Russian broker.

✍️ @kimzetter.bsky.social

www.zetter-zeroday.com/trenchant-ex...

FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database The case was the first time authorities charged people for alleged “Antifa” activities after President Trump designated the umbrella term a terrorist organization.

New from 404 Media: the FBI was able to extract incoming Signal messages from a phone even though the app was deleted. Why? Because parts of messages were stored in the iPhone's internal notification database. Shows how secure chat data can come from unexpected places www.404media.co/fbi-extracts...

heatmaps from the report showing tracking

BREAKING: You checked the weather this morning.

And you just told a surveillance company where you sleep.

Meet #Webloc, used by ICE, cops & foreign govs to track 500m+ phones.

No warrant required.

Our @citizenlab.ca investigation + how to protect yourself 🧵/1
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Millions of euros worth of EU subsidies and taxpayer money is fuelling the very market that leads to spying on journalists, activitists, politicians and people in the EU, and undermines our democracies.

“We analyzed a 2025 sample of the Spyrtacus #spyware, version 8.71. …We confirm attribution to 🇮🇹SIO S.p.A. and provide a small set of IoCs to detect infections of this malware family.”

osservatorionessuno.org/blog/2026/04...

The appeal court trial of four people convicted in connection with Greece’s phone #spyware scandal will be held on 11 December.

www.ekathimerini.com/news/1300604...

Men Are Buying Hacking Tools to Use Against Their Wives and Friends In Telegram groups, men are sharing thousands of nonconsensual images of women and girls, buying spyware, and engaging in doxing and sexual abuse.

NEW:

Thousands of men are members of Telegram groups and channels that advertise and sell hacking and surveillance services that can be used to harass friends, wives and girlfriends, and former partners, new research has uncovered.

Greek Wiretapping Probe Enters Critical Phase as Statute of Limitations Looms - Dnews Greece’s sprawling wiretapping scandal has entered a decisive new phase, with judicial maneuvering and mounting delays fueling concerns that key offenses could expire before prosecutors bring charges....

“🇬🇷Greece’s sprawling wiretapping scandal has entered a decisive new phase, with judicial maneuvering and mounting delays fueling concerns that key offenses could expire before prosecutors bring charges.”

www.dnews.gr/eidhseis/new...

Hack-for-hire group caught targeting Android devices and iCloud backups | TechCrunch Security researchers exposed a spying campaign by a hack-for-hire group that used Android spyware and phishing to steal iCloud credentials and hack victims’ devices.

Security researchers have identified a hack-for-hire group targeting journalists, activists & govt officials across the MENA region which used phishing attacks to access targets’ iCloud backups & Signal accounts & deployed Android spyware.

✍️ @lorenzofb.bsky.social

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🇮🇪Ireland is considering a new bill that would legalise the use of #spyware by the police—a move critics warn could be a boon to surveillance abuse.
➡️I spoke with @niaolainf.bsky.social @olgacronin.bsky.social @tjmcintyre.com @aajanovic.bsky.social to learn more.

www.techpolicy.press/irelands-new...

Ireland's New Surveillance Bill Opens Door to Spyware Abuse Ireland is considering a new bill that would legalize the use of spyware by the police, reports Vas Panagiotopoulos.

Ireland is moving to legalize police use of spyware, including tools linked to NSO Group and Intellexa, reports Tech Policy Press fellow Vas Panagiotopoulos. The bill expands access to encrypted communications but lacks clear oversight, raising concerns about unchecked surveillance powers.

Russian government hackers broke into thousands of home routers to steal passwords | TechCrunch Fancy Bear, also known as APT28, has taken over thousands of residential home routers to steal passwords and authentication tokens in a wide-ranging espionage operation.

NEW: Russian government hackers Fancy Bear used thousands of hacked routers to steal passwords and credentials from espionage targets.

Microsoft identified over 200 organizations and 5,000 consumer devices affected in the campaign. Lumen says there are at least 18,000 victims in ~120 countries.

Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era A new initiative to secure the world’s most critical software and give defenders a durable advantage in the coming AI-driven era of cybersecurity.

Welcome to the space age of cybersecurity.

“AI models have reached a level of coding capability where they can surpass all but the most skilled humans at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities.”

www.anthropic.com/glasswing

Fresh evidence linking the Greek government to #PredatorGate. Today's @tovimagr.bsky.social revelations confirm the long held suspicion that Predator was to be paid from EU funds. Will @ec.europa.eu demand clarifications? (spoiler: it won't). A clear case for the EU Public Prosecutor #EPPO

Now in English: www.dnews.gr/eidhseis/new...

🚫The project was ultimately not funded, as the wiretapping scandal had meanwhile come to light and there were objections over ambiguities in the proposal.

According to the report, the proposal for the cluster was submitted to the General Secretariat for Research and Innovation in March 2021. In the documents submitted to the secretariat, Intellexa was presented as a company specialising in “image and audio analysis” & “cyberspace sensors.”

➡️According to documents cited by the newspaper, Intellexa had joined a consortium of AI and big data companies (Predictive Intelligence Cluster), which was to receive approximately 💰€3 million in funding through Greece's Ministry of Citizen Protection.

⚠️Intellexa was allegedly set to be funded in Greece through 🇬🇷state and 🇪🇺European funds before the wiretapping scandal broke, newspaper @tovimagr.bsky.social reports.