The Austrian government is likely to face legal challenges after it succeeded on its fifth attempt to pass a law this month that gives the country’s intelligence service legal powers to deploy spyware ...

A California court has ordered Israeli spyware merchant NSO Group to pay $167.25m in punitive damages, and $444,719 in compensatory damages, for enabling state-backed hacks of mobile devices belonging ...

WhatsApp says it has notified around 200 users who were tricked into installing a malicious fake version of the chat app that contained spyware. WhatsApp accused Italian spyware maker SIO of creating ...

Spyware rarely announces itself with pop-ups or flashing warnings. It slips into everyday routines, quietly tracking what you type, where you click, and which accounts you open, often for months ...

A zero-day vulnerability in Google Chrome, exploited in Operation ForumTroll earlier this year, delivered malware linked to Italian spyware vendor Memento Labs, born after IntheCyber Group acquired ...

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott last week filed a groundbreaking lawsuit against Sony BMG Music Entertainment, alleging the company secretly installed an invisible “spyware” program onto millions ...

WASHINGTON - It's the newest computer security problem to attract the attention of Congress: spyware, or software designed to collect computer users' personal data without their knowledge. Secretly ...

Dear Action Line: What causes pop-up ads on the computer screen and how do I stop them? — N.R., Tulsa. US-CERT, Homeland Security's Computer Emergency Readiness ...

Google is rolling out a new feature that will help investigate spyware attacks on Android devices. The new tool, called Android Intrusion Logging, was released on May 12 as part of Google’s Android ...

As with the wars against computer viruses and junk e-mail, or spam, the battle against spyware has been one of ever-evolving one-upsmanship, with spyware removal applications struggling to keep up ...

TechWeb News reported last week that British authorities recently thwarted an electronic bank robbery that involved keylogger software, a kind of computer spyware. The plan was to steal $423 million ...