{"id":9772,"date":"2026-01-10T02:03:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T02:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/10\/pctattletale-founder-pleads-guilty-in-rare-stalkerware-prosecution\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T02:03:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T02:03:53","slug":"pctattletale-founder-pleads-guilty-in-rare-stalkerware-prosecution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/10\/pctattletale-founder-pleads-guilty-in-rare-stalkerware-prosecution\/","title":{"rendered":"pcTattletale founder pleads guilty in rare stalkerware prosecution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    pcTattletale founder pleads guilty in rare stalkerware prosecution<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>The founder of a spyware company that encouraged customers to secretly monitor their romantic partners has pleaded guilty to federal charges &#8211; marking one of the few successful US prosecutions of a stalkerware operator.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Graham Cluley<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitdefender.com\/en-us\/blog\/hotforsecurity\/pctattletale-founder-pleads-guilty-in-rare-stalkerware-prosecution\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>pcTattletale founder pleads guilty in rare stalkerware prosecution The founder of a spyware company that encouraged customers to secretly monitor their romantic partners has pleaded guilty to federal charges &#8211; marking one of the few successful US prosecutions of a stalkerware operator. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Graham Cluley [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,154,54,155,164,2221,83,253,847,131],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-9772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-breach","category-data-loss","category-grahamcluley","category-guest-blog","category-law-order","category-pctattletale","category-privacy","category-spyware","category-stalkerware","category-vulnerability","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}