The United States on Wednesday added the Israeli spyware company NSO Group to its "entity list," a federal blacklist prohibiting the company from receiving American technologies, after determining that its phone-hacking tools had been used by foreign governments to "maliciously target" government officials, activists, journalists, academics and embassy workers around the world.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Commerce Department added four companies from Israel, Russia and Singapore to its "entity list" on Wednesday, saying t.
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The US Commerce Department added Israel's NSO Group, the firm that developed Pegasus, and Candiru to its trade blacklist, saying they sold spyware to foreign governments that used the equipment to target government officials, journalists and others.