{"id":14076,"date":"2022-07-28T23:32:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T21:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/calls-mount-for-us-gov-clampdown-on-mercenary-spyware-merchants\/"},"modified":"2022-07-28T23:32:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T21:32:23","slug":"calls-mount-for-us-gov-clampdown-on-mercenary-spyware-merchants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/calls-mount-for-us-gov-clampdown-on-mercenary-spyware-merchants\/","title":{"rendered":"Calls Mount for US Gov Clampdown on Mercenary Spyware Merchants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span><span>Cybersecurity professionals from Google&#8217;s threat hunting unit and the University of Toronto&#8217;s Citizen Lab are upping the pressure on mercenary hacking firms selling high-end surveillance spyware with fresh calls for the U.S. government to urgently clamp down on these businesses.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/calls-mount-us-gov-clampdown-mercenary-spyware-merchants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity professionals from Google&#8217;s threat hunting unit and the University of Toronto&#8217;s Citizen Lab are upping the pressure on mercenary hacking firms selling high-end surveillance spyware with fresh calls for the U.S. government to urgently clamp down on these businesses. read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,20,28,45,14,10,30,31,15,21,34,11,17,12,33,19,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-application-security","category-cloud-security","category-cyberwarfare","category-disaster-recovery","category-email-security","category-endpoint-security","category-fraud-identity-theft","category-identity-access","category-incident-response","category-malware","category-network-security","category-news-industry","category-phishing","category-privacy","category-tracking-law-enforcement","category-virus-malware","category-vulnerabilities"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}