NSO Group
| Use attributes for filter ! | |
| Founded | 2010 |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Herzliya |
| Israel | |
| Key person | Shalev Hulio |
| Subsidiary | OSY Technologies SARL |
| Founders | Shalev Hulio |
| Niv Carmi | |
| Omri Lavie | |
| Type of business | Privately held company |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 2159241 |
About NSO Group
NSO Group Technologies is an Israeli technology firm known for its Pegasus spyware enabling the remote surveillance of smartphones. It was founded in 2010 by Niv Carmi, Omri Lavie, and Shalev Hulio. It reportedly employed almost 500 people as of 2017, and is based in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv.
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... Nso Group says its tools are made to target terrorists and criminals and insists it only supplies Pegasus to military, law enforcement and intelligence agencies from countries with good human rights records...
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... Pegasus is sold by Nso Group to governments to carry out surveillance through infecting phones with malicious software...
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... And in a further twist, seized on by critics of normalisation, the mobile phones of nine Bahraini activists were hacked in 2020 using " Pegasus" spyware made by the Israeli firm Nso Group, according to researchers at the University of Toronto s Citizen Lab...
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... The hack was made using invasive spyware called Pegasus, which infects targeted phones and was produced by the Israeli firm Nso Group...
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...Apple is suing Israeli spyware firm Nso Group and its parent company for allegedly targeting iPhone users with a hacking tool...
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... The tech company claims, Nso Group, an Israeli private security company, is responsible for and is currently being sued in the US courts...
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... It was allegedly built and sold by the Israel-based Nso Group and sold to governments around the world...
WhatsApp sues Israeli firm over phone hacking claims
...Facebook-owned WhatsApp has filed a lawsuit against Israel s Nso Group, alleging the firm was behind cyber-attacks that infected devices with malicious software...
WhatsApp sues Israeli firm over phone hacking claims
Facebook-owned Whatsapp has filed a lawsuit against Israel's Nso Group , alleging The Firm was behind cyber-attacks that infected devices with malicious software.
Whatsapp accuses The Company of sending malware to roughly 1,400 mobile phones for the purposes of surveillance.
Users affected included journalists, Human Rights activists, political dissidents, and diplomats.
Nso Group , which makes software for surveillance, disputed the allegations.
, Whatsapp said Nso Group "developed their malware in order to access messages and other communications after they were decrypted on target devices".
It said Nso Group created various Whatsapp accounts and caused the malicious code to be transmitted over the Whatsapp servers in April and May.
"We believe this attack targeted at least 100 members of civil society, which is an unmistakable pattern of abuse,"
The affected users had numbers from several countries, including Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Mexico, according to the lawsuit.
Whatsapp said it is seeking a permanent injunction banning NSO from using its service.
The Firm , which was acquired by Facebook in 2014, said it was the First Time an encrypted messaging provider had taken legal action of this kind.
Whatsapp promotes itself as a "secure" communications app because messages are end-to-end encrypted. This means they should only be displayed in a legible form on The Sender or recipient's device.
Nso Group said it would fight the allegations.
"In The Strongest possible terms, we dispute today's allegations and will vigorously fight them," The Company said in a statement to the BBC.
"The sole purpose of NSO is to provide technology to licensed government intelligence and law enforcement agencies to help them fight terrorism and serious Crime . "
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Source of news: bbc.com
