Cybersecurity Issue Brief Print this page Mythical Beasts: Diving into the depths of the global spyware market By Sarah Graham, Jen Roberts, and Nitansha BansalIntroductionLurking in the murky depths of the global marketplace for offensive cyber capabilities sits a particularly dangerous capability—spyware. The Mythical Beasts dataset helped expose the global market for spyware through 2023. Findings in the second edition of this project, Mythical Beasts: Diving into the depths of the global spyware market, constitute the best possible sample of data that the authors have been able to gather. Figure 1 highlights the changes in the largest investors in the spyware market from the first Mythical Beasts version to this update. Conclusion: The current state of the spyware market and policyThe global market for spyware continues to persist and evolve.