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WASHINGTON - US authorities on Wednesday put the Israeli maker of the Pegasus spyware at the center of a scandal over surveillance of journalists and officials on a blacklist of restricted companies.

"These tools enabled foreign governments to conduct transnational repression," says US Commerce Department.

With this move, the US government has acknowledged what Amnesty and other activists have been saying for years: NSO Group’s spyware is a tool of repression.

Biden administration says Israeli company’s spyware enables ‘repression’, used to target journalists and activists.

The year 2021 came both as a shock and raised the alarm among the iOS users when the iPhone 11 owned by Claude Mangin got hacked. She is the French wife of the political activist lodged in the Morocco jail. | Pulse Nigeria

Togolese activist targeted with spyware by the Donot Team hacker group; Amnesty International exposes links between the Donot Team attacks and Innefu Labs, a cybersecurity

Togo activist targeted by Indian-made spyware linked to cyber-mercenaries

MPs and human rights groups ask parliament to look into how Sheikh Mohammed deployed sophisticated spyware

Inside the spyware firm that came in from the cold The boss of the world’s best-known cyber mercenary company wants to step out of the shadows and engage with its critics Drones are a key tool of NSO’s work It has been two years since executives at NSO Group, the Israeli cyber security business behind the world’s leading spyware, have been able to speak publicly. Before NSO’s acquisition by its co-founders and London private equity firm Novalpina Capital in 2019, the Tel Aviv cyber merc...

Access Now 7 January 2021 | 4:04 pm amicus brief in the case of WhatsApp v. NSO in the U.S. Federal 9th Circuit Court. In their opposition, NSO argued that the court should reject the brief on the grounds that it duplicates other amici briefs and introduces allegedly impermissible facts about NSO and its customers.  In reply, Access Now argues that the brief meets the Federal Rules of Procedure for amicus briefs and is distinct from all other submitted briefs as it presents the Cou...