Security News > 2021 > March > Mobile spyware fan Saudi Crown Prince accused by US intel of Khashoggi death

The murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, which is said to be have been aided by digital surveillance, was ordered by the head of the Saudi Arabian government, US intelligence has publicly asserted.

Last week, Uncle Sam's Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a statement fingering Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for orchestrating the killing, which a lawsuit claims was aided by tracking technology provided by spyware biz NSO Group.

The Crown Prince, according to the UN, also had Washington Post owner and Amazon supremo Jeff Beozs's iPhone hacked to dig up dirt on the American billionaire.

The American government's top hackers have issued a memorandum, advising organizations' infosec teams to trust no one, and that zero trust in security is the way to go.

In a blog post on Friday, Gab CEO Andrew Torba said it was claimed "An archive of Gab public posts, private posts, user profiles, hashed passwords for users, DMs, and plaintext passwords for groups have been leaked via a SQL injection attack. We were aware of a vulnerability in this area and patched it last week. We are also proceeding to undertake a full security audit."

An activist group called Distributed Denial of Secrets said 70GB and 40 million posts were harvested from Gab by a netizen.

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