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TechCrunch covers Google Cloud COO Francis de Souza’s warnings on AI security, stressing a platform-and-data-security duet and a need for multi-cloud governance, while also detailing concrete security infringements and defenses (API billing anomalies, rapid breach timelines, spyware protection features) and adjacent hardware progress (XREAL Aura; Bee/Wearable) with IPO and margin signals.
A spyware maker is implicated after researchers found a case where authorities used a fake Android app to plant spyware, with the developer previously unknown in this market.
UK cybersecurity chief warns spyware access is widespread (about 100 countries) and that businesses and critical infrastructure underestimate the threat of phone hacking.
Bryan Fleming, founder of pcTattletale, avoids jail after pleading guilty to hacking and advertising spyware, receiving time served and a $5,000 fine as the first U.S. prosecution of a spyware maker in over a decade.
WhatsApp says roughly 200 users in Italy were duped into installing a fake iOS WhatsApp client containing spyware from the Italian maker SIO, has logged them out and warned them, and plans a formal legal demand; the piece notes a prior 90-user spyware incident linked to Paragon Solutions.
Convicted spyware founder hints that Greece's government authorized mass phone hacks on dozens of officials and journalists, signaling potential state-sanctioned surveillance and significant regulatory risk for spyware vendors.
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