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The move is a significant sanction against a company spotlighted in July over misuse of the spyware targeting officials, activists, journalists, academics and embassy workers.

'We are not taking action against countries or governments where these entities are located,' State Dept. says after Israel-based NSO and Candiru were added to its Entity List for malicious cyber activities

The SC has directed a technical committee under retired Supreme Court judge, Justice Raveendran, to look into the revelations of the Pegasus Project reports.

The Biden administration on Wednesday added Israeli tech and spyware firm NSO Group to the Commerce Department's Entity List, a blacklist of foreign people and enterprises facing restrictions on their business in the U.S. because of national security concerns.

Efforts to put human rights at centre of foreign policy, US says

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.

NSO, three other companies put on Entity List because its tools have also enabled foreign governments to conduct trans-national repression, targeting dissidents, journalists and activists

The US 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 its phone hacking tools had been used by foreign governments to maliciously target government officials, activists, journalists, academics, and embassy workers around the world.

The Biden administration on Wednesday added Israeli tech and spyware firm NSO Group to the Commerce Department's Entity List, a blacklist of foreign people and enterprises facing restrictions on their business in the U.S. because of national security concerns.

The US Department of Commerce has added the NSO Group to its Entity List after reports came out earlier this year that its Pegasus spyware was being used to target activists, journalists, and more.