updated Sat. June 15, 2024
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FierceWireless
March 12, 2018
“NSO Group's spyware has been used in several countries to target journalists, lawyers and human rights defenders,” the Citizen Lab said. It also cited a 2014 article in a Turkish newspaper that mentioned that Turkey “had begun negotiations with Procera to buy a PacketLogic system for surveillance andÃâà...
BGR
March 6, 2018
Though not as widely known as Cellebrite or, say, the NSO Group, Grayshift is said to be staffed by “long-time U.S. intelligence agency contractors and an ex-Apple security engineer.” As for for the company's iOS 11 hack, the report claims that the company is now advertising an unlocking tool whichÃâà...
Threatpost
February 27, 2018
The assertions have reignited similar privacy concerns surrounding three zero-day vulnerabilities, identified as Trident, that surfaced in 2016, sold by the Israeli firm NSO Group that were branded as Pegasus. “I'd be zero-percent surprised if Cellebrite had a zero-day that allowed them to unlock iPhonesÃâà...
MediaShift
February 26, 2018
In June 2017, a group of experts revealed evidence of 76 incidents of journalists and human rights defenders being targeted with a surveillance software product called Pegasus, which is manufactured by NSO Group, an Israeli firm. Pegasus allows the attacker to access and monitor the victim's mobileÃâà...
Mexico News Daily
February 21, 2018
Those who had been targeted by spyware attempts filed a formal complaint before the federal Attorney General's office (PGR), claiming the government had infected their phones to spy on them with software known as Pegasus, which Israeli company NSO Group allegedly sold to the Mexican government.
New York Times
February 20, 2018
But this is at odds with the description of the spyware given to The Times last year by its manufacturer, the NSO Group. Officials at the company said the contracts were based on a specific number of spying targets, and that the system installed on site at the government agency tracked every time it was used.
CTech
February 19, 2018
Cyber surveillance firm founder defends company's practices. In a rare interview, co-founder of Israel-based cyber surveillance company NSO Group offered a defense of his company, which has been accused of supplying governments with software used to spy on journalists and dissidents. Read more.
Voice of America
February 13, 2018
The software is marketed by Israeli company NSO Group, which only sells it to governments. The researchers said they had found a trace of the Pegasus software in a phone belonging to a group of experts backed by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The group had investigated the 2014Ãâà...
Motherboard
February 7, 2018
As Motherboard previously reported, Israel's NSO Group has attempted to buy US contractors in order to acquire their government connections. Zero-day exploit broker Zerodium also recently tried to enter the US market, and many similar companies flaunt their wares at high profile trade fairs for potentialÃâà...
Motherboard
August 2, 2017
The Drug Enforcement Administration held a meeting with the US sales arm of NSO Group, a controversial malware company whose products can remotely siphon data from iPhones and other devices, according to internal DEA emails obtained by Motherboard. The news highlights law enforcementÃâà...
Mintpress News
December 31, 1999
... uncovered the government's use of a surveillance software product called Pegasus to spy on reporters, activists and civil rights advocates under critical circumstances involving their work. The software was manufactured and sold to the Mexican government by the Israeli company NSO Group.
Redress Information & Analysis
December 31, 1999
In both of these cases it was revealed that Israel's NSO Group had sold its espionage software, Pegasus, to purchases who used it to spy on journalists and human rights activists. Hundreds of Israelis were listed in the Panama Papers. This spying software has been sold to dozens of countries with dubiousÃâà...
