Joe Hannon

Graphite Caught: First Forensic Confirmation of Paragon’s iOS Mercenary Spyware Finds Journalists Targeted - The Citizen Lab On April 29, 2025, a select group of iOS users were notified by Apple that they were targeted with advanced spyware. Among the group were two journalists who consented to the technical analysis of the...

NEW REPORT: Our forensic analysis confirms ✅ two more European journalists targeted with Paragon's Graphite spyware.

Read it here: citizenlab.ca/2025/06/firs...

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Nice report! "Interestingly, it has a compile timestamp set years in the future: Sun Nov 29 22:30:12 2093." - this is possibly because for .NET files the TimeDateStamp is often (depending on build settings) a hash of the file content to help with deterministic builds

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Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

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Researchers name several countries as potential Paragon spyware customers | TechCrunch The Citizen Lab said it believes several governments may be customers of spyware maker Paragon Solutions.

NEW: Citizen Lab researchers mapped out the infrastructure of spyware maker Paragon Solutions, and say they were able to identify servers likely used by customers in several countries: Australia, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Israel, and Singapore.

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Spyware maker Paragon confirms U.S. government is a customer | TechCrunch Israeli spyware maker Paragon Solutions confirmed to TechCrunch that it sells its products to the U.S. government and other unspecified allied countries.

NEW: Spyware maker Paragon Solutions sent us a statement confirming the U.S. government "and its allies" are customers.

Paragon told us customers “explicitly prohibit the illicit targeting of journalists and other civil society figures.”

Lots of questions remain.

techcrunch.com/2025/02/04/s...

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How Barcelona became an unlikely hub for spyware startups | TechCrunch Barcelona's mix of affordable cost of living and quality of life has helped create a vibrant startup community — and become a hotbed for the creation of surveillance technologies.

Incredible reporting from @lorenzofb.bsky.social on how Barcelona became an unlikely hub for spyware startups and exploit makers. Critics say spyware makers on Europe's front door is a problem, given human rights abuses involving spyware deployed against EU citizens.

techcrunch.com/2025/01/13/h...

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