Jerusalem: Israel has formed a senior senior team inter-minister to “pay attention to” breed accusations that spyware sold by an Israeli cyber company has been misused on a global scale, the word source of Israel on Wednesday, adding that export reviews is not possible.
The team was led by the Israeli National Security Council, who answered Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and had a broader field of expertise than the Ministry of Defense, which oversees the exports of the NSO Pegasus software, the source said.
“This event is outside the Purview of the Ministry of Defense,” said the source, referring to the potential of diplomatic blowback after the leading media report this week for allegedly violating Pegasus in France, Mexico, India, Morocco and Iraq.
Sources, who have direct knowledge of the team and ask for anonymity because of the sensitivity of the problem, consider it “doubt” that the new sidewalk will be placed on Pegasus exports.
A short stop describing the team’s assignment as a formal investigation, the source said: “The aim is to find out what happens, to see this problem and learn the lesson.” NSO did not immediately respond to a request for a comment.
Bennett’s office is also not.
Overcoming the Cyber ​​Conference on Wednesday, the Prime Minister did not comment on NSO affairs.
Global investigations published on Sunday by 17 media organizations, led by a non-profit non-profit journalism group based in Paris, said Pegasus has been used in the efforts of smartphones that seek and success belongs to journalists, government officials and human rights activists.
NSO has rejected reporting by media partners, saying it was “full of the wrong assumptions and the theory that was not bound”.
Pegasus is intended only for use by government intelligence and law enforcement agencies to fight terrorism and crime, NSO said.
Such a goal also guided Israel’s export policy, Defense Minister Benny Gantz said in a speech on Tuesday.
However, in referring to allegations around Pegasus, he added: “We are studying the information published about this problem.” At the conference, Bennett said Israel had a memorandum of understanding with dozens of countries about cyber security, which he wanted to improve to be a “global cyber defense shield”.