| 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 …
| 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
| 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) …
| 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
| 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.
| 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
| 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 …
| 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 …
| 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 …
| 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.
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