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NSO Group Technologies is
an Israeli
technology firm focused on cyber intelligence. It was founded in 2010 by Niv
Carmi, Omri Lavie, and Shalev Hulio.[2][3][4]
It is reported to employ around 500 people and is based in
Herzliya
near Tel Aviv.[1][5][6]
Annual revenues were said to be around $40 million in 2013 and $150 million in
2015.[2][7]
In June 2017, the company was put for sale for $1 billion by its owner
Francisco Partners Management,[5]
and it was sold to its own management in 2019.[8]
According to the company, it provides "authorized governments with technology
that helps them combat terror and crime".[9]
Electronic Frontier Foundation and
Citizen
Lab, a digital rights group and a human rights group respectively, claimed,
and proved with the help of Lookout Security, that software created by NSO Group
was used in targeted attacks against
human rights activists and
journalists in several countries.[10]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSO_Group
Undated: Pegasus is a
spyware that
can be installed on devices running certain versions of
iOS,
Apple's
mobile operating system, developed by the
Israeli
cyberarms firm,
NSO Group.
Discovered in August 2016 after a failed attempt at installing it on an
iPhone
belonging to a
human rights activist, an investigation revealed details about the spyware,
its abilities, and the
security vulnerabilities it exploited. Pegasus is capable of
reading text messages,
tracking calls, collecting passwords,
tracing the location of the phone, and gathering information from apps.
Apple released version
9.3.5 of its iOS
software to fix the vulnerabilities. News of the spyware garnered significant
media attention. It was called the "most sophisticated" smartphone attack ever,
and became the first time in iPhone history when a remote
jailbreak exploit had been detected. The company that created the spyware,
NSO Group, stated that they provide "authorized governments with technology that
helps them combat terror and crime".[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_%28spyware%29
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January 29:
Donald Trump's national security team considering
building new 5G phone network to avoid Chinese spies
The plan would make the internet faster – but also make it much easier for the
government to spy on and control it
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/donald-trump-5g-network-internet-china-spying-superfast-broadband-best-latest-a8184106.html
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April 3:
FBI is examining whether President Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort is vulnerable to
foreign spies
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/04/03/mar-lago-arrest/3356751002/
May 13:
Amnesty International is supporting a legal action to take the Israeli
Ministry of Defence (MoD) to court, to demand that it revokes the export license
of NSO Group, an Israeli company whose spyware products have been used in
chilling attacks on human rights defenders around the world.
In a petition to be filed tomorrow at the District Court of Tel Aviv,
approximately 30 members and supporters of Amnesty International Israel and
others from the human rights community set out how the MoD has put human rights
at risk by allowing NSO to continue exporting its products.
"NSO Group sells its products to governments who are known for outrageous human
rights abuses, giving them the tools to track activists and critics."
“The targeting of human rights defenders for their
work, using invasive digital surveillance tools, is not permissible under human
rights law. Without stronger legal checks, the spyware industry enables
governments to trample on the rights to privacy, freedom of opinion and
expression.”
"The Israeli government needs to revoke NSO Group’s export license and stop it
profiting from state-sponsored repression.”
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/05/israel-amnesty-legal-action-stop-nso-group-web-of-surveillance/
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May 13:
Israel’s NSO: the business of spying on your iPhone
Software that has hacked WhatsApp has also been accused of helping
governments spy on dissidents
https://www.ft.com/content/7f2f39b2-733e-11e9-bf5c-6eeb837566c5
May 14:
Meet the shadowy security firm from Israel
whose technology is believed to be at the heart of the massive WhatsApp hack
https://www.businessinsider.com/whatsapp-hack-who-is-nso-group-spy-firm-behind-attack-2019-5
May 21:
Apartheid Arms: Why Israel Sells
Military Equipment to Human Rights Violators
An in-depth report released in Hebrew by Amnesty International’s Israeli chapter
provides a
damning picture of Israeli arms exports to countries
that violate human rights. This report provides solid evidence that over the
past 20 years, Israeli military exports went to at least eight countries that
have been known for serious violations of human rights
[For example]:
United Arab Emirates – which has imprisoned
government critics and human rights activists – received Israeli spyware
software, including the infamous “Pegasus” spyware (just days ago, NSO, the
Israeli company behind Pegasus, was
linked to a security exploit targeting WhatsApp that
allowed Pegasus to be installed)
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/apartheid-arms-why-israel-sells-military-equipment-to-human-rights-violators/
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