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posted by janrinok on Tuesday July 20 2021, @12:36AM   Printer-friendly
from the NSO:-No-Such-Operation dept.

Israeli Spyware Maker Is in Spotlight Amid Reports of Wide Abuses

Data leaked to a consortium of news organizations suggests that several countries use Pegasus, a powerful cyberespionage tool, to spy on rights activists, dissidents and journalists.

A major Israeli cyber-surveillance company, NSO Group, came under heightened scrutiny Sunday after an international alliance of news outlets reported that governments used its software to target journalists, dissidents and opposition politicians.

The Israeli government also faced renewed international pressure for allowing the company to do business with authoritarian regimes that use the spyware for purposes that go far afield of the company's stated aim: targeting terrorists and criminals.

[...] The allegations may escalate concerns that the Israeli government has abetted government abuses by granting NSO an export license to sell software to countries that use it to suppress dissent.

The accounts, published by The Washington Post and an alliance of 16 other international news outlets, follow recent reporting by The [New York] Times that Israel permitted NSO to do business with Saudi Arabia, and encouraged it to keep doing so even after the Saudi government was implicated in the 2018 assassination of a Saudi journalist and dissident, Jamal Khashoggi.

Pegasus: The new global weapon for silencing journalists

Also at Business Insider, The Hill, The Verge, and Al Jazeera.

Related: Israeli Firm NSO Linked to WhatsApp Hack, Faces Lawsuit Backed by Amnesty International
Saudi Crown Prince's WhatsApp Account Reportedly Used to Hack Jeff Bezos
The Great iPwn -- Journalists Hacked with Suspected NSO Group iMessage 'Zero-Click' Exploit


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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday July 20 2021, @01:28AM (3 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday July 20 2021, @01:28AM (#1158123) Journal

    Care to explain that subject line? I come from NYC and there's only one hand gesture in common use there, which looks a little something a-like-a-this: t("t)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 20 2021, @02:27AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 20 2021, @02:27AM (#1158134)

    Around here, we haven't quite got the hang of it, and it looks to me kinda like a "::!:,"

  • (Score: 1) by HammeredGlass on Tuesday July 20 2021, @01:31PM (1 child)

    by HammeredGlass (12241) on Tuesday July 20 2021, @01:31PM (#1158243)

    Handwaves = a la Ben Kenobi

    The rest = various "chosen" power centers, whom you are mistaken for ever having done anything wrong

    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday July 20 2021, @04:58PM

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday July 20 2021, @04:58PM (#1158321) Journal

      Sorry, I'm not getting this. "Chosen" in what regard, by whom, and what does that last malformed clause in there even mean? Smaller, more direct words, for the people in the back.

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