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Judge limits evidence about NSO Group customers, victims in damages trial

A federal judge last week placed strict limits on the kind of evidence NSO Group can raise during a trial on damages in the lawsuit WhatsApp brought against the spyware vendor over allegations it hacked 1,400 of the messaging platform’s users. Under the order, NSO Group is prohibited from presenting evidence about its customers’ identities,…

Six additional countries identified as suspected Paragon spyware customers

Researchers have identified suspected government customers of spyware company Paragon Solutions in six more countries that hadn’t previously been publicly identified, according to a report published Wednesday. The University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab said it mapped the infrastructure of Paragon’s Graphite tool after a tip from a collaborator, and found a subset of suspected Paragon…

Hackers are targeting machine identities. Token Security just raised $20M to stop them

The number of machine identities is booming thanks to the growth of cloud and AI – and it’s posing real security problems by giving hackers way more entry points than ever before. For example, a 2023 hack of authentication app Okta was caused by exploiting a service account while in 2024, Microsoft disclosed a major…

Israeli court to hear U.S. extradition request for alleged LockBit developer

An Israeli Court is set to deliberate a significant extradition case involving Rostislav Panev, an Israeli citizen alleged to be involved with the notorious LockBit ransomware gang. According to Israeli news outlet Ynet, a U.S. extradition request was made public Thursday claiming that between 2019 and 2024, Panev served as a software developer for LockBit.…