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Senate panel examines need to combat spyware in international tech supply chains

By Jacob Livesay / September 25, 2024

Lawmakers in a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee hearing discussed the growing challenge of international commercial spyware use and how securing technology supply chains can protect allies and Americans abroad from cyber espionage.

“In the last decade, at least 75 countries – nearly 40 percent of all nations – have acquired commercial spyware, giving rise to a lucrative mercenary industry, now worth billions, that is flourishing despite U.S. import restrictions and sanctions against some of the known actors in this space,”...


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