The incident is the first known breach to affect a government agency, and Australia's prime minister has vowed to hold OpenAI accountable.

Russian authorities are doubling down on their efforts to quash freedom of expression, including access to information, by increasingly suppressing tools to circumvent draconian censorship laws, Human Rights Watch said today. Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) services face intensifying blocking and takedowns from app stores.

Contacté au sujet du piratage supposé de ce téléphone, le quai d’Orsay ne fait pas de commentaires. L’affaire rappelle toutefois le scandale Pegasus, ce logiciel espion développé par la société israélienne NSO qui avait permis de pirater des dizaines de milliers de smartphones.

Ankara believes the attempts were unsuccessful, citing enhanced security measures and encrypted applications

The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts told TechCrunch that it will start disclosing how many times judges authorized the use of spyware to wiretap suspected criminals.

The SHARE Foundation has confirmed that at least 14 people in Serbia were targeted with advanced spyware since at the beginning of 2026 – the largest documented wave of such surveillance in the country to date. Those targeted include members of the student movement, activists, a member of parliament, and a local councilor, all from […]

The United States government has designated the Italian non-profit organisation Autistici/Inventati as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist" for providing digital infrastructure. EDRi stands in fu...

In effort to prime chatbots to make pro-Israel arguments the site published 124 reports, over 560,000 words in nine days, Guardian analysis shows

At South Africa’s National Women’s Day commemoration on August 9, President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke, among other things, about the Taliban’s systematic oppression of women and girls in Afghanistan. Stan...

This report documents the blocking of Women on Web (WoW) and Women Help Women (WHW) domains in Italy based on OONI data.

Indian security forces used tear gas and batons to suppress largely peaceful student and youth protests in New Delhi on July 20, 2026.

Firm behind ChatGPT reveals agent powered by its models chose to attack Hugging Face database by itself

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

From product demonstrations at a secret villa in Rabat to training sessions at NSO’s Herzliya headquarters, Forbidden Stories and its partners retrace the early stages of Morocco’s use of Pegasus.

Trailing targets, monitoring internet cafes, deploying spyware: Morocco has mobilized a massive arsenal of surveillance tools against journalists and dissidents in recent years.

L’Elysée a fini par mettre son veto. Récit d’une volte-face.

The Government is expected to share further information on VPNs in July, after an update from Technology Secretary Liz Kendall.

Large-scale datacentre projects around the world are being challenged or cancelled, as infrastructure’s energy demands ramp up

Google’s latest report reveals a completely unprecedented rise in energy consumption – more than any of us expected. Generative AI is a climate carbon bomb.

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 Europe. Through forensic analysis of his device, we found that the attackers could have had access to confidential documents and committee deliberations.

Conservatives and other opposition parties sought to address privacy concerns in Bill C-22, but the Liberal government shut down debate and fast-tracked the bill.

WhatsApp caught and disrupted spear phishing attempts linked to NSO, a spyware firm blacklisted by the US government.

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Human Rights Watch is deeply saddened by the death on June 3, 2026, of Carola Frediani at the age of 51 following a long illness.

The police use of ODITs is so secret that police forces have signed agreements to drop serious criminal investigations rather than reveal the name of their vendor.

The Barcelona High Court reopens the investigation into Pegasus espionage against three Òmnium members, requesting information from the CNI.

Alice says the video was posted on social media and viewed about 40,000 times.

Our official statement to the digital rights community about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia

After a global Pegasus spyware scandal, El Salvador’s presidential office quietly pursued a new spyware deal through intermediaries.

Lusaka - Zambia: Government has postponed the highly anticipated RightsCon 2026 global summit, which was scheduled to take place in Lusaka from May 5 to 8.

The first quarter of 2026 saw a surge in Internet disruptions, from nationwide shutdowns in Uganda and Iran to unprecedented drone strikes on cloud infrastructure. We explore the data behind these events using Cloudflare Radar.

Despite promising to help determine what happened with the hacks targeting journalists and activists in Italy, Israeli American spyware maker Paragon has reportedly not responded to authorities’ requests for information.

In collaboration with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), we identified what we conclude to be two distinct actors aligned with the People’s Republic of China. Our findings provide insight into the Chinese government’s practice of digital transnational repression and its shift to a system of state-sponsored attacks carried out by private contractors.

Morpheus: A new Spyware linked to IPS Intelligence