The Israeli NSO surveillance software company for a while blocking several government clients worldwide from the use of Pegasus Spyware because the company investigates its possibility of abuse, non-profit non-profit NPR reported.
This development also follows the raid on several NSO group offices on Wednesday by the Israeli government agency “to begin to assess” allegations of security violations against spyware pegasus companies.
Meanwhile, French authorities have found traces of Pegasus software on cellphones from several French targets on the list of Amnesty and Forbidden Stories’ – provide independent repairs from this month’s explosion report, a Tweet by Reuters correspondents, citing La Monde and online investigation journals, Mediapart.
According to NPR, the NSO Group suspended the supply of this software in response to investigation by Pegasus Projects, a media outlet consortium that reported that spyware Pegasus companies related to hacking and potential telephone supervision of people including journalists, human rights activists and head of state.
“There is an investigation into several clients.
Some of these clients have been suspended while,” said the source in the company, which – according to NPR – spoke with anonymous requirements because the company’s policy stated that NSO “would no longer respond to media questions about this problem and would not play together With a malignant and slander campaign.
“NPR reported that company employees would not name or measure government institutions – or their country – that NSO was recently suspended from its spyware use, by asserting that Israeli defense regulations prohibit companies to identify their clients.
NSO said it has 60 customers in 40 countries, all intelligence agents, law enforcement agencies and military.
It was said in recent years, before media reports, blocking the software from five government institutions, including two last year, after finding evidence of abuse, NPR reported.
NSO internal investigations examine several telephone numbers of people reported by NSO clients as potential targets.
“Almost everything we checked, we did not find a connection to Pegasus,” said the employee to NPR, refusing to describe the potential of NSO abuse may have found.
NSO has blocked Pegasus used by several governments: Reports
