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A politician on the European Parliament’s PEGA Committee—assembled to investigate spyware abuses
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Key facts
- It is alleged that Stokes, along with other members of the loose hacking collective, hacked into an unnamed “luxury jewelry retailer” and demanded a $8 million cryptocurrency ransom in May 2025
- And a researcher realized that he could use Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 to break into the website of Front Gate and issue tickets to almost any United States music festival, including Lollapalooza
- The arrest of Stokes follows two British Scattered Spider members, Thalha Jubair and Owen Flowers, recently pleading guilt y to hacking Transport for London in 2024 and causing millions in damages
- Apple Hide My Email is leaking email addresses that are supposed to be hidden,” security researcher Tyler Murphy, who discovered the flaw in June 2025, told the publication
Summary
A politician on the European Parliament’s PEGA Committee—created to investigate spyware abuses, including of the notorious Pegasus malware— was targeted with Pegasus himself, according to new research findings released this week. And a researcher realized that he could use Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 to break into the website of Front Gate and issue tickets to almost any United States music festival, including Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo. But wait, there’s more! Back in 2021, Apple launched its Hide Their Email tool, which as the name suggests, allows people to sign-up for online services using an email address that isn’t linked directly to them.