In his essential new book that reads like a spy thriller, “Chasing Shadows” profdeibert, founder and director of the The Citizen Lab, reveals how his team of cyber sleuths uncovered a rapidly growing commercial espionage industry over the past 15 years. More: twp.ai/4ioSEk

There are plenty of reasons to be concerned with Canada's 🇨🇦 new proposed border security legislation Fortunately we have Kate Robertson The Citizen Lab to untangle them. See below for the extended analysis 🔽

Reminds me: I should really tidy up my office. To my right, on the ground is a bag full of promotional materials from surveillance vendors that someone smuggled out of an ISS World about a decade and a half ago...

I am happy to see the #G7 Leaders’ Statement on Transnational Repression which also calls out harms around mercenary spyware. 🇨🇦 Now let's follow it up with laws and regulations! pm.gc.ca/en/news/statem…

NEW REPORT: Russia's state-backed hackers have a new trick. In collab w/ Google Threat Intelligence Group, we investigated an attack against prominent Russian expert Keir Giles & uncovered an elaborate attack targeting App-Specific Passwords (ASPs). citizenlab.ca/2025/06/russia…

We The Citizen Lab have a new report out on a Russian-linked hacking campaign. John Scott-Railton with the details below 👇

Mercenary spyware firm Paragon claims its a "responsible" firm contrary to NSO Group But our reporting The Citizen Lab shows their spyware was abused in Italy 🇮🇹 to target civil society Access Now has an open letter w questions to them, and I signed on ⬇️ accessnow.org/press-release/…

Details on the Paragon / Italy 🇮🇹 story continue to evolve... Omer Benjakob has updates below from the firm, following up on Access Now's letter. A fully independent inquiry with subpoena powers would be appropriate at this point

Remember when Meta published about an ITW FreeType OOB write vuln (CVE-2025-27363) in March? Turns out, Meta links this vuln to an exploit from spyware vendor Paragon securityweek.com/freetype-zero-…

Thank you everyone who came out to the #saltspringforum for my book Chasing Shadows I had a great time, and I was really honoured the event was moderated by Professor Lucy Suchman -- a legend!

Canada’s outdated laws leave spyware oversight dangerously weak: policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/juil… Kate Robertson Song-Ly Tran The Citizen Lab

New op-ed by profdeibert discusses the G7 Leaders’ Statement on countering transnational repression that was put forward last month. Read it in the The Globe and Mail theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

In my book, Chasing Shadows, I describe the sordid cast of characters, graft, and corruption that defined NSO's business in Mexico 🇲🇽 New reporting by Gur Megiddo גור מגידו reveals the sordid details, a $25 million bribe of the former President haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Writing for PolicyOptions, the Citizen Lab’s Kate Robertson and Song-Ly Tran discuss how Canada’s outdated wiretap laws fail to protect Canadians from spyware abuse. Read it here: policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/juil…

"No bad person should ever benefit from our success’ is a pretty difficult principle to run a business on.” wired.com/story/anthropi…

Citizen Lab is still chasing shadows cbc.ca/listen/cbc-pod… Click Here CBC

The State Department recently announced an unprecedented new requirement that applicants for student and exchange visas must set all social media accounts to “public” for government review. This mass surveillance is an outrageous violation of privacy. eff.org/deeplinks/2025…