Tag: NSO Group
Finland says Pegasus spyware found on diplomats’ phones
Finland’s Foreign Ministry announced on Friday that Finnish diplomats had been targeted by Pegasus spyware, developed by the Israel-based NSO Group Technologies.
“The highly sophisticated malware has infected users’ Apple or Android telephones without their...
Israeli minister denies police abuse of NSO spyware against citizens
Israeli Internal Security Minister Omer Bar-Lev on Saturday night denied a recent press report that the Israel Police has been using NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware against citizens, without a court order, through use of a legal...
Democratic lawmakers call for sanctions against Israeli cyber firm NSO Group
Eighteen U.S. lawmakers released a letter on Tuesday urging the U.S. Treasury and State Departments to sanction Israeli spyware firm NSO Group for allegedly helping authoritarian regimes commit human-rights violations.
The letter, which also called...
Iran, spyware-abuse topics of Bennett-Macron meeting at climate summit
Iran’s race to to enrich uranium was among the key topics discussed on Monday by Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and French President Emmanuel Macron, during a meeting between the two leaders on the...
Selling spyware is immoral, but selling weapons isn’t?
French President Emmanuel Macron scolded Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett following a report that Moroccan intelligence services had used Israeli tech firm NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware to keep tabs on him and other senior...
Israel tells France it is investigating NSO spyware allegations
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz told his French counterpart Florence Parly in Paris on Wednesday that Israel was looking into allegations that spyware developed by Israeli company NSO Group was used against French President...
Amnesty International and Qatari information warfare
Amnesty International recently suffered a blow, potentially as much to its reputation as to its operations, when the Tel Aviv District Court ruled to dismiss its complaint against Israeli cybersecurity company NSO Group/Q Cyber...
Court rejects Amnesty petition to revoke export license of Israeli spyware firm
The Tel Aviv District Court ruled on Monday against an Amnesty International petition to cancel the export license of the Israel-based technology company NSO Group, whose spyware, Pegasus, enables the remote surveillance of smartphones.
Amnesty...