Jurre van Bergen

Thanks for your report on Meiya Pico! I started tracking their tools/infrastructure ever since!

Curious. Former head of the Dutch Intelligence Service. Rob Bertholee, joined Dataflow Security on the advisory board.

Really awful news. Rest in power Jason.

Blood boiling

Really great read, thanks for working on this.

When Zero-Knowledge Proofs Are Not Enough: Lessons from a Real-World Zero-Knowledge Authorization System, a.k.a Analysis and Vulnerabilities in zkLogin (eprint.iacr.org/2026/227) (1/n)

A lapse in opsec from their... General counsel

Bro wanted more money for knock off watches??

Aww, she took it down.

I'd just like to clarify that Czechia is not the country's instance, this was a demo instance for a kids day.

Yeah sorry, of Paragon!

The general counsel uploaded a picture on Linkedin showing the web panel of Paragon's spyware.

The panel shows a phone number in Czechia, Apps, Accounts, media on the phone, the interception status and numbers extracted from social media applications.

Don't tell North Korea!

Really awful news Joseph, hope you land on your feet quick! Thanks for all your coverage over the years!

Microsoft Gave FBI BitLocker Encryption Keys, Exposing Privacy Flaw The tech giant said providing encryption keys was a standard response to a court order. But companies like Apple and Meta set up their systems so such a privacy violation isn’t possible.

Microsoft is handing over Bitlocker keys to law enforcement. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

Spanish court points finger at Israel as it drops Pegasus spyware case again Judge shelves inquiry into use of Israeli-made software to target ministers’ phones citing chronic lack of cooperation

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

"Spain’s highest criminal court has again shelved its investigation into the use of Pegasus software to target the mobile phones of senior Spanish ministers, including the prime minister, citing a chronic lack of cooperation from the Israeli authorities."

Goes to Palantir

we all knew all along.
www.volkskrant.nl/politiek/d66...

It's only going to get worse isn't it?

Just the best people...

Treasury said in an email that the removal "was done as part of the normal administrative process in response to a petition request for reconsideration." It added that each of the individuals had "demonstrated measures to separate themselves from the Intellexa Consortium."

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Gambazzi, Hamou and Harpaz, who previously were sanctioned in relation to Intellexa. Got removed from sanctions today.

ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actio...

Previously unknown instructions & settings sheets for the SG-41 have been discovered in Czech archives! Thanks to Eugen Antal, Carola Dahlke & Robert Jahn who published them in Cryptologia.
I've been working to bring these into Virtual SG-41
@tnmoc.bsky.social @cryptomuseum.bsky.social

They're more into Battlefield?

Pope tells Italian spies not to smear politicians or journalists Pope Leo on Friday urged Italy's intelligence services to avoid smearing public figures and journalists, saying abuse of confidential material risked undermining democracy and public trust.

The Pope involves himself in Italy's spy scandal and asks intel officials to respect people's privacy and not leak data and smear people with hacked data

www.reuters.com/world/pope-t...

How French spies, police and military personnel are betrayed by advertising data Using easily accessible advertising data, Le Monde was able to pinpoint the identities, home addresses and daily routines of several dozen people working for sensitive official entities.

www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/ar...

It’s not just a problem in France #SpeirGorm #SpéirGhorm.

Found two Edge Group brochures for their IMSI-Catcher products that I haven't seen publicly before: github.com/DrWhax/edgeg...

FTC Denies Petition from SpyFone App CEO to Vacate 2021 Order The Federal Trade Commission has denied a petition from Scott Z

In 2021, the FTC issued a ban on stalkerware-maker Spyfone and its CEO, Scott Zuckerman. Earlier this year, Zuckerman requested that the ban be vacated because it's inconvenient for him. The FTC has voted 2-0 to deny his request. Good. www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

Laptops in the Long Run: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program in Rural Peru Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

One Laptop Per Child, 10 years later: "we find no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative effects on grade progression... computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills" www.nber.org/papers/w34495

Intellexa remotely accessed Predator spyware customer systems, investigation finds It was one of a trio of reports about the spyware vendor over the course of a day, with additional evidence about further infections among the findings.

It was one of a trio of reports about the spyware vendor over the course of a day, with additional evidence about further infections among the findings. via @timstarks.bsky.social cyberscoop.com/intellexa-re...