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קובי שבתאי מפכ"ל ה משטרה

Move over NSO: Israeli police is paying private hackers to spy on citizens

19.01.22|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

איציק בנבנישתי מנכ"ל פרטנר 16.8.20 ועידת Mind The Tech

NSO would-be CEO steps down just two weeks after joining embattled company

11.11.21|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

משרדי NSO ב הרצליה

Report: Bahrain used NSO’s Pegasus spyware against regime opponents

24.08.21|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

מימין יו"ר NSO אשר לוי והמנכ"ל שלו חוליו

NSO Chairman to employees: Company ownership will not change, “continue to do the important things you do”

02.08.21|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

שלו חוליו מייסד מנכ"ל משותף NSO

NSO CEO exclusively responds to allegations: "The list of 50,000 phone numbers has nothing to do with us"

20.07.21|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

משרדי NSO ב הרצליה

The rotten oranges of Israeli cybersecurity

19.07.21|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

ריגול ממשלתי ניטור המוני פרטיות מצלמות מעקב 1

NSO's spyware used to target journalists' cell phones - reports

19.07.21|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

ביל מרזק עמית מחקר בכיר ב מכון סיטיזן לאב של אוניברסיטת טורונטו

Citizen Lab’s report points to Israeli cyber’s lack of morals

18.07.21|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

פאונדרס גרופ NSO איציק זק

Report: Israel's Candiru provided spyware used against dissidents, journalists and human rights activists

15.07.21|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

מימין ביל מרזק סיטיזן לאב ומייסד סירקלס טל דיליאן

Report reveals which countries are using Circles Technologies’ invasive spyware

01.12.20|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

מימין דרור מור יואב פולי מרדכי ו פיני מידן שני

Desert Storm: Former Israeli defense officials' Persian Gulf entanglement

17.09.20|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

ריגול ממשלתי ניטור המוני פרטיות מצלמות מעקב 1

Big Brother is back to tracking citizens because Netanyahu fell asleep on the job

25.06.20|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|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

ביל מרזק עמית מחקר בכיר ב מכון סיטיזן לאב של אוניברסיטת טורונטו

We Do Not Target NSO, but Most Evidence Leads to Them, Says Digital Human Rights Researcher

04.02.20|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

יחידת 8200 ב גלילות

High Profile Spy Companies Are Damaging Israel’s Image

20.11.19|Omer Kabir

Israel’s tech ecosystem is world-renowned for its innovation, but companies like NSO, Black Cube, and AnyVision are casting a sinister shadow over it

NSO Spyware Used to Target Moroccan Human Rights Activists, Says Amnesty

10.10.19|Omer Kabir

According to Amnesty’s report, the two activists received SMS messages with malicious links that would have installed NSO’s Pegasus spyware on their devices if clicked. Both previously faced harassment from the Moroccan regime over their activism

מימין שלו חוליו ו עמרי לביא מייסדי NSO

NSO Commits to U.N. Human Rights Principles

10.09.19|Hagar Ravet

The Israeli cyber surveillance company, which has been previously linked with the alleged persecution of journalists and social activists, published on Tuesday a human rights policy to which it said clients would be required to adhere

NSO’s Spyware Used to Tap Phones via WhatsApp Voice Calls, Report Says

WhatsApp said a vulnerability in its app enabled attackers to infect devices with the Israeli company's spyware, according to a Monday Financial Times report

ביל מרצ'ק חוקר בכיר Citizen Lab ועידת ניו יורק 2019

Self Probe Won’t Cut it for Israeli Spyware Company NSO, Says Citizen Lab Researcher

17.04.19|Omer Kabir

Bill Marczak, a senior fellow researcher at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, a digital and human rights research group, spoke Thursday at Calcalist’s Mind the Tech Conference in New York

משרדי NSO ב הרצליה

Former NSO Employee Pleads Guilty to Stealing and Attempting to Sell Spyware Code

16.01.19|Tomer Ganon

Yechiel Isakov will serve a five-year sentence after additional charges of jeopardizing Israel’s national security were dropped

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