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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
High Profile Spy Companies Are Damaging Israel’s Image
20.11.19
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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
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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
NSO Commits to U.N. Human Rights Principles
10.09.19
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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
14.05.19
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CTech
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
Self Probe Won’t Cut it for Israeli Spyware Company NSO, Says Citizen Lab Researcher
17.04.19
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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
Former NSO Employee Pleads Guilty to Stealing and Attempting to Sell Spyware Code
16.01.19
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Tomer Ganon
Yechiel Isakov will serve a five-year sentence after additional charges of jeopardizing Israel’s national security were dropped
Mueller Investigation of Russian Oligarch Sinks Israeli Predictive Analytics Company
17.12.18
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Hagar Ravet
Tel Aviv-based Fifth Dimension has recently fired all of its employees. The company is chaired by Benny Gantz, the Israeli military’s former Chief of Staff
Predictive Analytics Company Fifth Dimension Shuts Down
16.12.18
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Hagar Ravet
The company, which develops predictive policing and threat assessment technologies for governments and financial institutions, let all employees go and sold its business
Israeli Government Signed Off on Sale of Spyware Allegedly Related to Khashoggi’s Death, Report Says
09.12.18
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Amarelle Wenkert
The Washington Post’s journalist David Ignatius writes that by allowing the sale of local cyber technologies, Israel made an ally in Saudi Arabia
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