cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/63197390

found this on some telegram channel:

In February 2026, an employee of Paragon Solutions published a photograph on her LinkedIn profile depicting the operation of the Graphite spyware. The post has currently been deleted.

Reut Yamen holds the position of Chief Legal Counsel and Director of Compliance at the Israeli company Paragon Solutions, which specializes in cyber-surveillance technologies. The company was founded in 2019 by a group of former employees of Israeli intelligence services — among them Ehud Schneorson, former commander of Unit 8200 (Israel’s equivalent of the U.S. National Security Agency), as well as former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.

The post was first noticed by technology researcher Yurre van Bergen, who tracks the use and proliferation of spyware worldwide.

The image apparently shows a demonstration interface of the Graphite system. An operator can view messages intercepted from a surveillance target in various services, including WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Line, and TikTok.

According to the results of a large-scale investigation conducted by The Citizen Lab in 2025, in 2024 in Italy, dozens of journalists and private individuals were attacked via the WhatsApp messenger using Graphite. A “zero-click” exploit (one that does not require user interaction) was used for this purpose.

Paragon Solutions has (or previously had) contracts with U.S. government agencies, in particular the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

  • RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip
    443·
    12 hours ago

    Read: ios and android is woefully insecure. By design.

    If you represent a country, you should be setting up to help your industry and citizens to escape these insecure surveilance capitalism devices.

    • apiaceae@quokk.auEnglish
      181·
      11 hours ago

      Hi, I represent a country. That’s disgusting. Global surveillance of the citizenry? Ugh, these disgusting insecure private surveillance devices. I mean, there’s so many of them though… Which one? Which one is offering that service?

      • Reannlegge@lemmy.ca
        141·
        9 hours ago

        Hi representative of a cauntry, I am Big tech is it not great how when you scratch my back I scratch your back and we watch these little people.