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UK Cyber Chief: 100 Countries Now Have Commercial Spyware Capable of Hacking Phones, Up From 80 in Three Years
NCSC director Richard Horne, speaking at CYBERUK 2026 in Glasgow, said the commercial spyware market has grown 25% since the agency's 2023 baseline assessment and now targets bankers and wealthy businesspeople in addition to journalists, dissidents, and foreign officials.
