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Israel’s Cellebrite Violates Sanctions, Selling Hacking Tools to World’s Repressive Regimes
Israeli human rights attorney, Eitay Mack, has revealed that the major Israeli cyber-hacking firm, Cellebrite, sells its products to some of the world’s most repressive regimes. Among them are Belarus and Venezuela. The latter has been placed under U.S. sanctions since 2006. The Venezuelan intelligence services have purchased Cellebrite hacking tools at least as far […]
NSO Group’s State-Sponsored Cyber-Warfare
There are a number of economic systems in the world today. There are market economies in capitalist countries and the state-owned means of production in socialist countries. In each of these systems, the state intervenes to a greater or lesser extent. Israel is nominally a capitalist economy (with a socialist past). But I prefer to […]
Spanish Intelligence Uses NSO Group Malware to Target Catalan Leaders, Federal Judge Refuses to Dismiss WhatsApp Suit Against NSO
Like Donald Trump, Israel’s premier cyber-spying firm has had a rough couple of weeks. Things began promisingly enough when an over-indulgent Israeli district court dismissed a lawsuit brought by Amnesty International on behalf one of its staff members whose phone was hacked by a Gulf state. The NGO correctly called the ruling “disgraceful:” “Today’s disgraceful […]
