Spyware

Virus screener goes down, Intel patches more chips, Pegasus government spying code spreads across globe

Roundup Plus: Gov pay sites take a dive, and more

Security22 Sep 2018 | 15

Bogus Mobile Device Management system used to hack iPhones in India

Baker's dozen pwned by tricksy attack

Security13 Jul 2018 | 2

Researchers claim ISPs are 'complicit' in latest FinSpy snooping rounds

Dictators' favourite spyware is working at the top, says report

Security21 Sep 2017 | 22

FBI probing Uber over use of 'Hell' spyware to track rival biz Lyft

Beleaguered company says it's 'cooperating' with investigation

Legal08 Sep 2017 | 18

Callisto Group snoopers wreak havoc with leaked HackingTeam spyware

Surveillance firm's toolset goes rogue in hands of cyberspooks

Security13 Apr 2017 | 8

Mystery deepens over Android spyware targeting Israeli soldiers

'Unlikely Hamas is responsible' – researchers

Security17 Feb 2017 | 22

Macs don't get viruses? Hahaha, ha... seriously though, that Word doc could be malware

Files spotted using Python code to infect Apple machines

Security09 Feb 2017 | 51

More Androids carry phone-home firmware

Backdoor slipped into phones sold outside China doesn't even hide itself successfully

Security20 Nov 2016 | 12

Monitoring software dev ordered to face wiretapping suit

WebWatcher goes from chat logs to court logs

Legal17 Aug 2016 | 5

It should be a crime to install spyware on phones, thunders Plaid Cymru MP

But anti-harassment plans will worry photogs and parodies

Legal10 May 2016 | 28

Things we should regulate: Spyware cowboys – EU Data Protection Supervisor

It's a privacy issue

Security17 Dec 2015 | 5

Webcam spyware voyeur sentenced to community service

Nabbed in operation targeting 'low-skilled' crooks

Security08 Oct 2015 | 24

Saudi Arabia: They liked Hacking Team so much they tried to buy the company

Might be nice to avoid new spy tech export laws

Security28 Sep 2015 | 13

Screenshot malware targeted innocent online poker players

All in with Odlanor

Security18 Sep 2015 | 10

Associated Press sues FBI for impersonating its site to install spyware

Meanwhile, the EFF learns: in Russia, government malware pwns you!

Legal28 Aug 2015 | 22

Security tool bod's hell: People think I wrote code for Hacking Team!

Now he wishes there was an anti-snoop clause in the GPL

Software22 Jul 2015 | 36

Hark, the Hacking Team angels sing, it’s not us who’ve actually sinned

Even that Sudan stuff wasn’t actually a weapon

Security22 Jul 2015 | 21

Spyware-spewing Wi-Fi drone found on Hacking Team, Boeing's to-do list

Air-to-surface malware missiles

Security20 Jul 2015 | 19

Hacking Team spyware rootkit: Even a new HARD DRIVE wouldn't get rid of it

No amount of scrubbing could shift UEFI BIOS nasty

Security14 Jul 2015 | 50

Hacking Team: Oh great, good job, guys ... now the TERRORISTS have our zero-day exploits

Good thing Adobe's patched one of them

Security08 Jul 2015 | 34

Security world chuckles at Hacking Team’s 'virus torrent' squeals

Pull the other one, security pros implore eggfaced biz

Security06 Jul 2015 | 53

South Korea mandates spyware installation on teenagers' smartphones

In North Korea they just add an extra can in the middle of the string

Security19 May 2015 | 59

Android tool catches apps silently pumping hundreds of ad, tracking servers red-handed

Some fire off 2,000 HTTP requests in a few minutes

Security05 May 2015 | 20

FinFisher, the spyware loved by cruel dictators, stomps all over human rights, says UK govt

Bahraini sales were dodgy, please don't do it again

Legal26 Feb 2015 | 13

Lenovo CTO: Hey, look around – we're not the only ones with a crapware infection

Friday is D-Day for PC lobber to regain trust

Channel25 Feb 2015 | 46

So long, Lenovo, and no thanks for all the super-creepy Superfish

+Comment Laptop biz CTO says there's no security risk – which is why it's labelled it 'severe'

Security20 Feb 2015 | 152

Kaspersky: That 2 years we took to warn you about Regin ? We had good reason

Security community: We only saw fragments...

Security05 Dec 2014 | 29

Author fined $500k in first US spyware conviction

100,000 creeps buy mobe-watching wares

Security30 Nov 2014 | 21

Stop selling spyware to despotic regimes, beg MEPs

... we've enough trouble with Regin as it is

Channel27 Nov 2014 | 9

Twitter App Graph exposes smartphone spyware feature

You don't want everyone to compile app lists from your fondleware? BAD LUCK

Software26 Nov 2014 | 16

Spyware-for-cops Hacking Team faces off against privacy critics

Defends 'lawful intercept and surveillance' tech

Security07 Nov 2014 | 13

FinFisher spyware used to snoop on Bahraini activists, police told

Gamma International on the end of UK criminal complaint

Security16 Oct 2014 | 10

Bloke accused of making phone spyware StealthGenie is cuffed by feds

Is it on your mobe? You'd never know

Legal30 Sep 2014 | 10

Yawn, Wikileaks, we already knew about FinFisher. But these software binaries...

Latest Assange leakgasm includes full copies of spyware

Security15 Sep 2014 | 27

EE...K: Why can't I uninstall carrier's sticky 'Free Games' app?

Plus: There is no such thing as a free lunch in ASDA

Networks24 Mar 2014 | 108

Hey, Glasshole: That cool app? It has turned you into a SPY DRONE

Google Glass spyware can use users as surveillance drones

Security24 Mar 2014 | 22

Chrome lets websites secretly record you?! Google says no, but...

Updated Dev reckons exploit lets sneaky sites listen in on your mic – El Reg investigates

Security23 Jan 2014 | 59

Poker ace's vanishing hotel laptop WAS infected by card-shark – F-Secure

Trojan on 'swiped' laptop could peek at player's hand, we're told

Security11 Dec 2013 | 45

NYU drops Chen Guangcheng iOS spyware claims

Says it made a mistake about blind dissident's fanboi gadgets

Legal10 Dec 2013 | 2

Blind activist Chen given spyware-laden iPad and iPhone

Malware claim denied by ChinaAid

Legal24 Jun 2013 | 21

Mozilla accuses Gamma of dressing up dictators' spyware as Firefox

Maker of spooks' fave FinSpy served cease-and-desist

Security01 May 2013 | 30

FinFisher spyware goes global, mobile and undercover

Report claims to have found C&C servers in 25 countries

Security19 Mar 2013 | 10

Paid secur-o-ware is generally better than free, but not always by a lot

Some big names well down the rankings in lab test

Security15 Oct 2012 | 52

Google engineer finds British spyware on PCs and smartphones

FinSpy turning up in dictatorships across the world

Security31 Aug 2012 | 52

Girls tricked by STEAMY message: Webcam spyware student jailed

'It's the only way to, er, clean the sensor'

Security26 Jul 2012 | 87

UK.gov warned: Halt exports of spyware to brutal regimes

Or see Privacy International in court

Legal24 Jul 2012 | 23

Chemical giant foils infected USB stick espionage bid

Malware-laden drive falls into the right hands

Security11 Jul 2012 | 34

DarkComet creator kills Trojan tool after Syrian police abuse

Updated RAT's all folks

Security10 Jul 2012 | 3

Whistleblower: Decade-long Nortel hack 'traced to China'

They had access to everything

Security15 Feb 2012 | 33

German cops hacked in revenge for dad spying on daughter

Payback after officer used cyber-bug at home

Security10 Jan 2012 | 28

Inside the shadow world of commercialised spook spyware

Exclusive 'We'll penetrate commsats, undersea cables, Skype ...'

Software01 Dec 2011 | 35

German states defend use of 'Federal Trojan'

Skype-snooping Bundestrojaner legal, insists gov

Security12 Oct 2011 | 28

Webcam sextortion perve gets 6 years

Hacked girls' PCs and blackmailed them to pose

Security02 Sep 2011 | 11

Gordon Ramsay sues father-in-law over alleged spyware plot

Cooking up trouble

Security08 Aug 2011 | 22

Go ahead and spy on customers, says judge

Spyware okay on rental computers, for now

Legal21 Jul 2011 | 47

'I caught a virus from Murdoch's organ' – famous secret hooker

Malware de Jour also hit Girl With One-Track Mind

Security12 Jul 2011 | 27