Corporate Security Alert: Google's Spyware Report

Spyware risks are rising fast, and you should definitely be worried — even Google says so...

Companies developing spyware and offering spying services to government agencies and threat actors around the world are growing in number, and to make matters worse, for all of them - business is good.

This is according to a new report from Google, which highlights the growing concern of commercially developed spyware.

Now, according to Google’s latest Buying Spying report, it tracks around 40 Commercial Surveillance Vendors (CSV). Some are more popular than others, but all play an important role in developing spyware, it said. more

Google: "If governments ever claimed to have a monopoly on the most advanced cyber capabilities, that era is over. The private sector is now responsible for a significant portion of the most sophisticated tools we detect."