{"id":16652,"date":"2021-07-30T22:00:24","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T22:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=16652"},"modified":"2021-07-30T22:00:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T22:00:24","slug":"from-the-middle-east-to-china-pegasus-spyware-revelations-show-the-spread-of-hacking-as-a-serviceunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=16652","title":{"rendered":"From the Middle East to China, Pegasus spyware revelations show the spread of hacking as a serviceUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostMore than two decades ago, the Middle East ushered in the era of private military companies (PMCs) and the return of mercenaries. Since the United States \u2013 during the invasion of Iraq \u2013 opened the proverbial Pandora\u2019s Box of privatising what was once a state monopoly on violence, there has been abundant coverage of the activities of armed contractors and mercenaries from Libya to Ukraine.In the past decade, private military contractors and mercenary outfits have proliferated, from conflicts in\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/politics\/article\/3143251\/middle-east-china-pegasus-spyware-revelations-show-spread?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostMore than two decades ago, the Middle East ushered in the era of private military companies (PMCs) and the return of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16652"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}