But after its Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the assassination of dissident journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, NSO stopped doing business with the regime. The NY Times reports that there are four Israeli cyber-malware companies, including NSO and Candiru, selling their wares to Saudi Arabia oppressive regime. NSO and Candiru’s Major Client: Saudi Arabia That in turn creates an attractive surveillance product to promote to foreign clients. Veterans of the unit then enter the commercial world where they sell their expertise to the highest technology bidder. The IDF’s Unit 8200, develops battle-tested spyware to surveil Israel’s enemies. This is yet another example of Israel’s leading role in exporting the national surveillance state throughout the world. This involves hacking the device rather than Signal’s technology. Though to be clear, the hackers have gained access to the Signal content once it’s downloaded to the target’s device. This is the first time I’ve heard of a successful penetration of Signal. They could even break into apps like Signal, whose encryption technology is meant to defeat precisely these sorts of exploits. Their malware can infect PCs, Macs, Android, IOS and cloud accounts. Not only could attackers gain full access to e mail, passwords, screen, microphone, texts, phone calls, web browsing, photo and video. Though contracts the company signed prohibited clients from targeting victims in Russia, China, the is and Israel, nevertheless these provision were ignored and citizens of a number of these states were attacked.Ĭandiru TLS certificate which exposed its role in malware attacks Optas and Universal Motors Israel are among its largest corporate investors.Ĭandiru sold this dirty tech to repressive regimes around the world whose intelligence agencies sought to penetrate the privacy of regime opponents. The mercenary spyware company was founded in 2014 by Yaakov Weitzman and Eran Shorer. They ranged geographically from Palestine, Israel, Iran, Lebanon, Yemen, Spain, United Kingdom, Turkey, Armenia, to Singapore. Hundreds of individuals including political dissidents, human rights activists, academics, journalists and lawyers were targeted. The spyware operation tempted targets to click on links which would download malware that hacked cell phones and PCs, offering hackers unlimited access to all their contents. Some of the 750 fraudulent domains used for Candiru phishing operationĬitizen Lab and Microsoft have jointly revealed that the Israeli firm, Candiru, set up 750 fake domain names meant to spoof legitimate human rights and social justice causes.
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