Holistic Resilience, a US group that helps Iranians secure internet access, says SpaceX has waived Starlink subscription fees amid a days-long internet blackout
Makes It FreeTucker Reals /CBS News:Over 12,000 feared dead after Iran protests, as video shows bodies lined up at morgueBenoit Faucon /Wall Street Journal:Iran Is Hunting Down Starlink Users to Stop ...
How smuggled Starlink receivers and customized software let some Iranians evade a near-total internet blackout as the regime brutally cracked down on protesters
Tehran went from ‘halal internet’ to near-total blackout but activists have smuggled in Starlink devices to get information out
Miaan Group: a number of Iranians received spyware threat alerts from Apple in H1 2025 in the months prior to the Iran-Israel war, the first such cases in Iran
More than a dozen Iranians' mobile phones were targeted with spyware in the months prior to the country's war with Israel, according to new research.
Citizen Lab: Russia's PROTEI is selling internet censorship software to an Iranian telco, allowing monitoring and interception of all Iranians' communications
Tehran is receiving advanced surveillance software after providing drones for Ukraine battlefield — How We Know Russia Is Using Iranian Drones in Ukraine
A look at Tel Aviv-based Toka, which helps clients in government and intelligence agencies hack security cameras and alter live feeds and past recordings
Meet Toka, the Israeli cyber firm founded by Ehud Barak, that lets clients hack cameras and change their feeds - just like in Hollywood heist movies Tweets: @haaretzcom , @spyblog , @haaretzcom , @haa...
Despite Elon Musk offering Iranians access to Starlink, experts say quickly building the infrastructure and evading government censorship will prove difficult
Elon Musk said the satellite-internet system was activated in the country last month — Watch: Iranians Clash With Police During Violent Wave of Protests
Recent cyberattacks on Iran's fuel distribution system and an Israeli LGBTQ dating site show that Iran-Israel cyberwar is impacting civilians on a large scale
Iranians couldn't buy gas. Israelis found their intimate dating details posted online. The Iran-Israel shadow war is now hitting ordinary citizens. Tweets: @alexgibneyfilm , @ebkania , @chris_sactoc...
A look at Nahoft, an Iran-focused text encryption tool for Android that can turn up to 1,000 characters of Farsi text into a jumble of random words
Lily Hay Newman / Wired : Tweets: @wilderko , @mnureddin , @dgtlcatacombs , and @lilyhnewman Tweets: @wilderko : When governments ban traditional encryption, steganography comes next. Nahoft uses enc...
Snowden calls for spyware trade ban amid NSO news, saying the industry should not exist and “they don't make vaccines—the only thing they sell is the virus”
the only thing they sell is the virus. https://www.theguardian.com/ ... Jim Waterson / @jimwaterson : This explanation of the Pegasus spyware and how it no longer even requires a target to click a dod...
SensorTower data shows Clubhouse has been downloaded 1.1M times in the Middle East, where its users see it as an open forum to discuss politics and taboo issues
New York Times : Tweets: @abdu , @curdistani , @nytimes , @asadabukhalil , @shahselbe , @rickgladstone , @naderalihashemi , @freddydeknatel , @mairavz , @farnazfassihi , and @evelyndouek Tweets: @abd...