The spyware founder's comments are the most direct suggestion yet from anyone inside Intellexa that the Mitsotakis government authorized the hacking of dozens of phones belonging to senior Greek government ministers, opposition leaders, military officials, and journalists.

The FCC ban will affect the import of all new, foreign-made consumer routers, the agency's head Brendan Carr said.

Leaked "DarkSword" exploits published to GitHub allow hackers and cybercriminals to target iPhone users running old versions of iOS with spyware, according to cybersecurity researchers.

A notice on the popular paywall-bypass website Archive.today said that access is blocked "by decision of [Russian] public authorities."