Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos in Riyadh. It marks a significant escalation in the way nations use commercial hacking tools -- and is fueling calls from officials and experts to ban the international sale of spyware. “This should be a wake-up call for the international community,” Agnes Callamard, a U.N. investigator who urged such a moratorium in light of the Bezos hack, told me. “It’s become a free-for-all, and anyone can acquire [these tools] now,” former FBI agent and cybersecurity expert Clint Watts told me. You are reading The Cybersecurity 202, our must-read newsletter on cybersecurity policy news.

Source: Washington Post January 23, 2020 12:33 UTC