Britain sounds alarm on spyware, mercenary hacking market

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Thousands of people targeted by 'increasingly unpredictable threat'.

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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