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Mexican Drug Cartels Have Access to Up to 25 Companies' Spyware Thanks to Federal, State Police Forces

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Mexican Drug Cartels Have Access to Up to 25 Companies' Spyware Thanks to Federal, State Police Forces

Plus 16 other hot infosec stories - Dragos raises $110M, NSA warns of Russian APT VMWare flaw exploits, Foxconn hit by DoppelPaymer ransomware, Magecart malware hidden in images, and more

Cynthia Brumfield
Dec 8, 2020
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As many as 25 private companies, including the notorious Israeli spyware purveyor NSO Group, have sold spyware to Mexican federal and state police forces, who sell it to the drug cartels

according to the Cartel Project, an initiative coordinated by Forbidden Stories, a global network of investigative journalists, which helps reporters who are threatened, censored, or killed (Nina Lakhani / The Guardian)

Related: Haaretz.com, Forbidden Stories

Industrial cybersecurity company Dragos has raised $110 million in a Series C round…

led by National Grid Partners and Koch Disruptive Technologies with participation from Saudi …

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