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The Billion Dollar Spy: Inside Israel's Cyber War Industry


The Billion Dollar Spy: Inside Israel’s Cyber War Industry
Israeli cyberwar firms are notoriously secretive
Five years ago, in 2016, Ahmed Mansoor, a human rights activist in the United Arab Emirates, received what has been called the most famous text message in the world. Mansoor received two SMS text messages on his iPhone promising “new secrets” about detainees tortured in UAE jails if he clicked on an included link. Suspecting something was amiss, Mansoor sent the messages to Citizen Lab, a research group at the University of Toronto, who analyzed the link and pointed to Pegasus, NSO’s flagship product. ....

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Probe of Israel-based NSO Group finds journalists, activists among spyware targets


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An investigation by a global media consortium based on leaked targeting data provides further evidence that military-grade malware from Israel-based NSO Group, the world’s most infamous hacker-for-hire outfit, is being used to spy on journalists, human rights activists and political dissidents.
From a list of more than 50,000 cellphone numbers obtained by the Paris-based journalism nonprofit Forbidden Stories and the human rights group Amnesty International and shared with 16 news organizations, journalists were able to identify more than 1,000 individuals in 50 countries who were allegedly selected by NSO clients for potential surveillance.
They include 189 journalists, more than 600 politicians and government officials, at least 65 business executives, 85 human rights activists and several heads of state, according to the Washington Post, a consortium member. The journalists work for organizations including the Associated Press, Reuters, CNN, the Wall St ....

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