WASHINGTON( NYTIMES)-Three former US intelligence officers hired by the United Arab Emirates to carry out sophisticated cyberoperations admitted to hacking crimes and violating US export laws that restrict the transfer of military technology to foreign governments, according to court documents made public on Tuesday( Sept 14). The documents detail a conspiracy by the three men to furnish the Emirates with advanced technology and to assist Emirati intelligence operatives in breaches aimed at dama

WASHINGTON( Reuters)-A Saudi Arabian women's rights activist accused three former U.S. intelligence contractors of an illegal hack of her phone that was instrumental in her being arrested and later tortured in her home country, according to a lawsuit filed in a U.S. court. Loujain al-Hathloul helped lead a campaign to allow Saudi Arabian women to drive by live-streaming herself violating the ban, which was lifted in 2018. She spent almost three years in Saudi jails and is currently banned from l

Three former U.S. intelligence operatives have admitted to working illegally as mercenary hackers for the United Arab Emirates in operations that included developing sophisticated spyware capable of tapping into mobile devices without any action by their users, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. Support our journalism.... New Pegasus hack prompts company to issue new software to fix iMessage vulnerability. Court filings did not explicitly say why the government offered the concession....