Britain sounds alarm on spyware, mercenary hacking market

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Britain sounds alarm on spyware, mercenary hacking market
British officials are sounding the alarm over the widespread abuse of surveillance software and hackers-for-hire, saying that thousands of people were being targeted each year by an industry they described as posing an increasingly unpredictable threat. Britain's National Cybersecurity ...

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