New Delhi: Israeli Authority has examined the Office of the NSO Group’s Outfit Surveillance in response to the investigation of the Pegasus project on spyware violations of the company by several government clients, Wali reported.
Officials from the Ministry of Defense visited the company’s offices near Tel Aviv on Wednesday, at the same time when Defense Minister Benny Gantz arrived in Paris for a previous arranged visit, where he discussed Wahyu Pegasus with his Pegasus colleagues.
French President Emmanuel Macron is one of the highest profile figures whose telephone numbers appear on leaking 50,000 figures believed to have been chosen as candidates for possible supervision by NSO clients, the report said.
He spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Naphtali Bennett last week to emphasize the importance of “investigating” the findings of the project correctly.
The initial media report described the steps at the NSO office as an attack, but the company said in a statement that the authorities had “visited”, rather than “raiding” the place.
NSO said it had been informed beforehand that the defense ministry officials responsible for overseeing the export of commercial export sensitive cyber would carry out inspections.
“The company works in full transparency with Israeli authorities,” he added, according to the report.
The Defense Ministry said in a tweet that visits conducted by several state bodies related to disclosures originating from the Pegasus project – a 17 media outlet consortium, including The Guardian, which revealed last week that government clients around the world have used hacking software sold by NSO for Target human rights activists, journalists and lawyers.
When the scale of disclosure has become clearer, diplomatic pressure has increased in Israel to explain the nature of the relationship between NSO and the state below the term of office of the former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the report said.
The broader investigation of Pegasus projects found that the Israeli government gave NSO’s explicit permission in 2017 to try to sell hacking tools to Saudi Arabia in a reported agreement worth at least $ 55 million, the report said.
Gantz told the French Defense Minister, Florence Parly, on Wednesday that Israel was investigating the problem “with the maximum seriousness”, according to a statement from the Israeli Ministry of Defense.
Before their Paris meeting, French government spokesman Gabriel Atlal said that Parly was interested in “questioning his colleagues about the knowledge of the Israeli government from NSO client activities” and what steps would be prevented “to prevent abuse” to prevent abuse “to prevent abuse These tools are very disturbing “.
Gantz previously defended an export license for hacking tools, by saying in a speech at the Cyberware conference in Tel Aviv last week that “countries that buy this system must fulfill the requirements of use”, which are solely for villain and terrorism investigations.
Pegasus: Israel examines the NSO Group office
