‘Happy Gilmore’ Producer Buys Spyware Maker NSO Group

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Under the pressure of the judiciary, Apple Move a series of apps This month is related to the contents related to the contents of US immigration and customs enforcement activities and ICE activities related to ICE’s activities from the App Store. Further applications have been removed, Multiple developers have told Ward this week that they are not letting Apple fight against With the decisions – and many are still distributing their applications to other platforms.

Waired software supply chain has tested growing alerts from researchers from researchers The expansion of the AI-exposed software in Codebase will create a more extreme version of the subject related to transparency and accountability Which brings widespread integration of open source software elements. And Apple announces the expansion of its bug bounty program this week with a maximum of $ 2 million payments Extra bonuses for some absorption chains that can be abused for spyware distribution and absorbing in Apple’s lockdown mode or new software’s beta versions.

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The infamous spyware dealer NSO Group, known for the development of Pegasus malware, has faced financial problems since the long legal battle against Apple’s long legal battle against WhatsApp on the protected messaging platform. Now, Israeli owned for a long time this company has purchased a group of US-based investors led by filmmaker Robert Simonds, who helped finance Gilmore, Billy Madison, Pink panther, HostlerAnd FerrariAmong many other films. This agreement has been reported to be “several million dollars” values ​​and is closer to finishing. The Ministry of Defense should approve the sale of the Defense Export Regulatory Agency (DECA) in Israel. If the tenant has the use of spyware Some US federal has grown in government organizations From the beginning of the Trump administration.

Hundreds of national protection and cyberquacy experts working in the United States Homeland Security Department have faced compulsory re -determination for President Donald Trump’s Mass International Agenda in recent weeks. Bloomberg reports that the affected workers are mainly senior workers who are not eligible for the union. It is reported that the workers who refuse to take the role will be dismissed. Members of the DHS’s CyberSSCURITY and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) who have faced the rebuilding “have been reported to have worked on threats against US agencies and critical infrastructure.” For example, the CISA’s capacity building team has faced a number of rebuilding, which can prevent urgent recommendations and access to the instructions for the high-end federal government assets. Workers have been removed to agencies with immigration and tariff application, tariffs and border protection and federal protective services.

Ay Recent violation The third -party customer service supplier used by the Communication Platform Discord includes a trove of data from more than 70,000 Discord users, which contains selfie, email address, phone number, some home location information and more. Data was collected as part of age verification checks, a process that contains Has been criticized for a long time To concentrate the sensitive information of the users. 404 The media has reported that the attackers are trying to give the dispute a epidemic. Hackers wrote on a telegram channel while posting the stolen data on Wednesday, “It’s going to be really ugly”.

US immigration and customs users in May in May, Techops Specialty Vehicles (TOSV), a Maryland -based company that produces equipment and vehicles for law enforcement. The company provides products with a disease cellphone tower that is used to monitor the phone and sometimes known as “stinggre” or “Cell-Site Simulator”. Public records Reviewed by TechCrunch shows how the agreement describes how the company provides the cell site simulator (CSS) vehicles to support the “Homeland Security Technical Operations Program” and it is a change in “Additional CSS Vehicle”. TOSV launched the same national $ 818,000 contract with the ICE in September 2021 before the Trump administration began. In an email to TechCrunch, TOSV President John Brianas refuses to share details about the deal, but confirmed that the company provides cell-site simulator. He said the company does not produce them itself.