hacking

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A Bump in the Road for Europe’s Narco-Busters

by Fin Carter /
EncroChat’s product wasn’t explicitly designed for criminals. But communication supposedly free from the possibility of surveillance is, unsurprisingly, attractive to organized crime. European investigators managed to hack into it in 2020. Now, they’re having trouble making their arrests stick.

The Rosetta Stone of For-Profit Hacking

by Bradley Hope /
We've heard extensively about the ways in which governments and intelligence agencies around the world use powerful technology to hack into the phones of everyone from suspected terrorists to activists, human rights campaigners and journalists. But just as interesting is a phenomenon in the private sector that has