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takyon writes:

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.

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Original Submission

1. "takyon" - https://soylentnews.org/~takyon/
2. "Israeli Spyware Maker Is in Spotlight Amid Reports of Wide Abuses" - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/18/world/middleeast/israel-nso-pegasus-spyware.html
3. "recent reporting by The [New York] Times" - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/17/world/middleeast/israel-saudi-khashoggi-hacking-nso.html
4. "Pegasus: The new global weapon for silencing journalists" - https://forbiddenstories.org/pegasus-the-new-global-weapon-for-silencing-journalists/
5. "Business Insider" - https://www.businessinsider.com/military-grade-spyware-company-used-to-hack-journalists-activists-executives-2021-7
6. "The Hill" - https://thehill.com/policy/technology/563600-military-grade-spyware-found-on-journalists-and-activists-phones-report
7. "The Verge" - https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/18/22582532/pegasus-nso-spyware-target-phones-journalists-activists-investigation
8. "Al Jazeera" - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/18/malware-targets-journalists-activists-and-lawyers-media-reports
9. "Israeli Firm NSO Linked to WhatsApp Hack, Faces Lawsuit Backed by Amnesty International" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/05/24/120244
10. "Saudi Crown Prince's WhatsApp Account Reportedly Used to Hack Jeff Bezos" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=20/01/22/0225203
11. "The Great iPwn -- Journalists Hacked with Suspected NSO Group iMessage 'Zero-Click' Exploit" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=20/12/21/1711211
12. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=50032

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