Bill Marczak

Israeli digital surveillance for hire giant NSO Group reportedly deployed at least three newattacks last year targeting human rights workers and other members of civil society spread out around the world using Apple devices. All of those “zero-click” exploits, according to new research from The Citizen Lab, could tap NSO into a victim’s device without them ever having to click a dirty link or any interaction by the target. Though the new attacks highlight NSO’s continued effort to crack Apple products, there is a silver…

The CIA had multiple directors that oversaw the U.S.’ reportedly disastrous use of fake websites for overseas operations from at least 2004 to 2013, but none could see just how easily identifiable any of these websites really were.Photo: JIM WATSON/AFP (Getty Images)Security researchers from Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto said on Thursday they found fatal flaws in a massive network of 885 fake websites that they have “high confidence” were previously used by the Central Intelligence Agency for covert…