Podcast Episode · Somewhere on Earth: The Global Tech Podcast · September 1 · 23m

Cybersecurity experts who investigate spyware attacks say the number of people who received a recent threat notification from Apple is unusually high.

Access Now's Digital Security Helpline and Vita Activa offer holistic digital safety and mental health support for activists.

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 Eur...

New Censys ARC research discovers that UNC1151's phishing email to a Belarusian politician is linked to a much broader campaign.

Access Now, the group that organizes RightsCon, says Zambian officials asked it to exclude Taiwanese participants if it wanted the event to proceed as planned.

Our investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns and, for the first time, links real-world attack traffic to mobile operator signalling infrastructure. The findings expose h...

Vercel blamed its breach on an earlier hack at Context AI, which allowed hackers to hijack a Vercel employee's account to steal customer data.

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.

Washington, D.C., April 8, 2026 — The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by new reports about spear-phishing attacks against several Egyptian and Lebanese journalists aimed at compromising th...

Spear phishing is a form of phishing that is highly targeted, aimed at compromising the data and communications of specific individuals or groups — such as high-profile activists, journalists, and…

Join us to learn and take action to prevent spear phishing and other digital attacks against activists, journalists, and human rights defenders.

In the third part of our blog series, we look at how the availability of systems is impacted by the proliferation of large language models.

For years, Access Now’s Digital Security Helpline has been aiding journalists and dissidents who have been targeted with government spyware. This is how they operate.

Tech companies are increasingly warning their customers that they have been targeted by governments with advanced government spyware, such as NSO's Pegasus or Paragon's Graphite. What happens after re...

For years, Access Now’s Digital Security Helpline has been aiding journalists and dissidents who have been targeted with government spyware. This is how they operate.