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"Governments make citizens believe they are safer when they are being tracked. This is bullshit"
26.04.22
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Viki Auslender
Sophie in 't Veld, a member of the European Parliament, will chair the commission of inquiry into the use of spyware such as NSO's Pegasus in EU countries. The inquiry will examine, among other things, whether existing laws allow for effective surveillance, and whether espionage has been used for political purposes
Senior EU officials were targeted with Israeli spyware
11.04.22
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Reuters
The officials are believed to have been hacked by ForcedEntry, an advanced piece of software that was used by Israeli cyber surveillance vendor NSO Group to help foreign spy agencies remotely and invisibly take control of iPhones. A smaller Israeli spyware vendor named QuaDream has also sold a nearly identical tool to government clients
NSO Chairman quits company amidst ongoing turmoil
25.01.22
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Meir Orbach
Asher Levy, who served as Chairman since April 2020, has left the embattled company behind the Pegasus spyware
Israeli police used NSO’s Pegasus to spy on local mayors, their relatives
23.01.22
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Tomer Ganon
Police tapped phones of three heads of local authorities, whom law enforcement suspected of engaging in corrupt activity, but no evidence was found and no indictment filed; some were detained, with their homes searched
Step-by-step: How Israel Police used NSO’s Pegasus to spy on citizens
20.01.22
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Tomer Ganon
Marking the target, hacking the phone, filing the information, real-time tracking and data analysis - Calcalist reveals what every step of the spyware operation looked like
Israel Police used Pegasus to track activist's secret use of gay dating app
20.01.22
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Tomer Ganon
Police officer who was in charge of tapping activist's phone with NSO’s spyware, called individual a 'danger to democracy', claimed info on his use of Grindr while married 'serves as leverage' in investigation
Move over NSO: Israeli police is paying private hackers to spy on citizens
19.01.22
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Tomer Ganon
The police’s cyber division employs external hackers to collect intelligence on targets. The hackers don’t have security clearance, were not trained as police officers, and are exposed to extremely private and secret information
NSO would-be CEO steps down just two weeks after joining embattled company
11.11.21
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Golan Hazani
Itzik Benbenisti was named as the spyware company's new CEO last month, but announced that he is leaving on Thursday following NSO’s blacklisting by the U.S. Commerce Department
Report: Bahrain used NSO’s Pegasus spyware against regime opponents
24.08.21
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Omer Kabir
The report from Citizen Lab maintains that the spyware was found on the smartphones of nine activists, five of which appeared on a list of 50,000 numbers of interest to NSO clients
NSO Chairman to employees: Company ownership will not change, “continue to do the important things you do”
02.08.21
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Omer Kabir
In a letter obtained by Calcalist, Asher Levy, the chairman of the company behind the controversial spyware Pegasus, wrote that investors chose to replace the managing body of the fund that owns NSO
NSO CEO exclusively responds to allegations: "The list of 50,000 phone numbers has nothing to do with us"
20.07.21
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Omer Kabir and Hagar Ravet
“I'll give you a simple statement: Journalists, human rights activists, and civil organizations are all off-limits,” said Shalev Hulio
The rotten oranges of Israeli cybersecurity
19.07.21
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Hagar Ravet
Most Israeli cybersecurity companies develop decent and kosher defensive products, but alongside them, a different cyber industry, one that prefers to remain in the shadows, has been allowed to blossom uninterruptedly. The Defense Export Control Authority at the Ministry of Defence continually protects these companies in court and refuses to reveal its decision-making process
NSO's spyware used to target journalists' cell phones - reports
19.07.21
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Reuters
According to the Guardian, the investigation suggested "widespread and continuing abuse" of the Israeli firm's hacking software, described as malware that infects smartphones to enable the extraction of messages, photos and emails; record calls; and secretly activate microphones
Citizen Lab’s report points to Israeli cyber’s lack of morals
18.07.21
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Omer Kabir
A new report from the University of Toronto's institute exposed Israeli surveillance company Candiru, warning it is not just one company that uses questionable practices, but rather common practice in the industry
Report: Israel's Candiru provided spyware used against dissidents, journalists and human rights activists
15.07.21
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Omer Kabir
The report from Citizen Lab and Microsoft claims to have identified websites tied to the cyber-surveillance company masquerading as advocacy groups such as Amnesty and as media companies
Report reveals which countries are using Circles Technologies’ invasive spyware
01.12.20
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Omer Kabir
Canada’s The Citizen Lab detected the Israeli-founded and NSO linked company’s fingerprints in use by a wide range of rights-violating regimes
Desert Storm: Former Israeli defense officials' Persian Gulf entanglement
17.09.20
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Tomer Gonen and Hagar Ravet
Court filings in a business dispute expose attempts to sell unauthorized cyber tools to a country Israel has no official ties with
Big Brother is back to tracking citizens because Netanyahu fell asleep on the job
25.06.20
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Omer Kabir
What started as an extreme emergency measure is turning into the norm because the authorities failed to come up with alternatives
The Dodgy Framework and the Middlemen: how NSO Sold its First Pegasus License
24.02.20
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Tomer Ganon and Hagar Ravet
A legal dispute regarding brokerage fees sheds light on the way the malware was first sold to a foreign country. American businessman Elliott Broidy, currently under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice for possible violations of lobbying laws, was originally tapped as one of the architects of the deal despite admitting to illegal gifts worth $1 million shortly before
We Do Not Target NSO, but Most Evidence Leads to Them, Says Digital Human Rights Researcher
04.02.20
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Omer Kabir
Bill Marczak, a senior research fellow at Citizen Lab and at University of California, Berkeley, is behind much of the research that exposed NSO’s operations
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