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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Tel Aviv-based Kodem, which uses runtime intelligence to find and mitigate application security risks, emerges from stealth with a $7M seed and an $18M Series A   —  A new startup is entering the fray in the market of application security: Kodem, a company out of Israel founded by a team …
Jun 13, 2023, 10:25 PMIn context
Financial Times:
How the US is increasingly reshaping the spyware market to favor companies selling cyberweapons to the US and its allies, like Israeli startup Paragon Solutions   —  Contrasting fates of Israeli spyware-makers Paragon and NSO reveal how American support is crucial in $12bn industry
May 30, 2023, 2:25 AMIn context
Access Now:
Pegasus was used in the Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict to target a government worker, a UN official, and others in 2021 and 2022, the first documented use in a war   —  The Armenia spyware victims include a former Human Rights Defender of the Republic of Armenia (the Ombudsperson) …
May 25, 2023, 7:50 AMIn context
Joseph Menn / Washington Post:
Citizen Lab: in 2022, NSO Group deployed at least three new zero-click hacks against iPhones with iOS 15 and early versions of iOS 16; Apple fixed the flaws   —  Examination of phones from Mexico led to discovery that NSO's Pegasus is still being used to seize iPhone data
Apr 18, 2023, 7:30 AMIn context
New York Times:
Sources: in November 2021, five days after Joe Biden put NSO on a Commerce Department blocklist, a US government front company licensed NSO's geolocation tool   —  The Biden administration has been trying to choke off use of hacking tools made by the Israeli firm NSO.
Apr 2, 2023, 7:35 PMIn context
Financial Times:
Sources: India is looking for spyware alternatives to Pegasus to avoid the “PR problem” associated with the NSO Group, seeking to spend between ~$16M and $120M   —  Modi government seeks alternatives to software made by NSO Group following snooping scandals around the world
Mar 31, 2023, 1:40 AMIn context
Parmy Olson / Bloomberg:
Q&A with Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud on their book Pegasus, how state actors misuse surveillance tech, spyware demand, what's next for NSO, and more   —  This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.  —  Parmy Olson: You're the co-authors of a new book, “Pegasus …
Feb 6, 2023, 4:20 AMIn context
Wall Street Journal:
NSO Group CEO Yaron Shohat, named in August 2022, acknowledges clients sometimes misused Pegasus, but defends selling hacking tools to police and intel agencies   —  Yaron Shohat acknowledges mistakes but defends the technology as vital  —  WASHINGTON—Embattled Israeli technology firm NSO Group acknowledged …
Jan 26, 2023, 9:30 AMIn context
Nate Raymond / Reuters:
SCOTUS lets Meta's WhatsApp pursue a lawsuit accusing Israel's NSO Group of exploiting a bug to install spyware, allowing the surveillance of 1,400 people   —  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday let Meta Platforms Inc's (META.O) WhatsApp pursue a lawsuit accusing Israel's NSO Group of exploiting …
Jan 9, 2023, 10:35 AMIn context
New York Times:
An investigation shows how, despite US sanctions on the NSO Group, government spyware use is booming, including the DEA's secret deployment of Graphite spyware   —  The market for commercial spyware — which allows governments to invade mobile phones and vacuum up data — is booming.
Dec 8, 2022, 8:40 AMIn context

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