Lately, the Israeli malware firm, NSO Group, named one of the 20 worst digital predators in the world, has garnered the most scandalous headlines. Exposes published by 16 difference global media outlets noted it was spying on 50,000 cell phone numbers for police states and intelligence agencies in 50 client countries. But another Israeli company, […]
As Cellebrite Prepares for Public Offering, It’s Dirty Deeds Come Back to Haunt From Spying on Putin and Lukashenko's Enemies to Summary Executions in Bangladesh, the Israeli Spyware Company Has Blood on Its Hands
The Israeli spyware company, Cellebrite is, along with its blood cousin, NSO Group, known in the cyber-surveillance sector for producing the most advanced and intrusive technology on the world market. They’re also among the profitable with market valuations in the billions. I’ve regularly profiled the latter company. But Cellebrite has evaded some of the more […]
NSO Group Targets 50,000 Cell Phone Numbers in 50 Countries: Presidents, Prime Ministers, US Diplomat, Security Officials
The Washington Post published yet another blockbuster story about NSO Group based on a list of 50,000 cell phone numbers it’s suspected of hacking on behalf of scores of repressive regimes. Among the suspected victims were powerful heads of state including three presidents (France’s Macron, South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa, and Iraq’s Barham Salih), one […]
Shin Bet’s Campaign Against Palestine
Several major international and Israeli human rights groups have recently issued reports calling Israel an apartheid state “from the river to the sea.” This means that Israel has devised a system keeping all non-Jews, whether inside the Green Line or outside (West Bank), under a racist system maintaining them in a state of perpetual oppression. […]
