Start-up von Ex-Kanzler Kurz über eine Milliarde Dollar wert: Was sagt diese Bewertung aus?

"Kurz hat das Unternehmen 2023 zusammen mit seinen #israel'ischen Geschäftspartnern Gil Dolev und Shalev Hulio gegründet. Hulio ist Geschäftsführer und vor allem deswegen bekannt, weil er früher das israelische Technologieunternehmen #NSOGroup geleitet hat, das die #Spionagesoftware #Pegasus entwickelt. Staaten wie Bahrain und Saudi-Arabien nutzten Pegasus..."
https://www.derstandard.de/story/3000000257639/cybersecurity-firma-von-ex-kanzler-kurz-mit-11-milliarden-dollar-bewertet

The US supports Israel full stop while they make software to spy on-

Damn it! I did it again!

Apple currently only able to detect Pegasus spyware in half of infected iPhones

https://9to5mac.com/2025/02/20/apple-currently-only-able-to-detect-pegasus-spyware-in-half-of-infected-iphones/

#Apple #Pegasus #NSOGroup #Israel #iPhone #InfoSec #Tech

"Quien sí piensa que Pegasus se debe prohibir es Claudiu Dan Gheorghe, exingeniero jefe de WhatsApp. Pero el software de espionaje comercial funciona precisamente porque trabaja sobre monocultivos: un agujero de seguridad en WhatsApp abre la puerta a 2.000 millones de usuarios. Un fallo de seguridad en Android abre 2.500 millones de teléfonos a la vez. Las empresas como Google, Apple y Meta invierten mucho presupuesto luchando contra estos ataques y comprando agujeros de seguridad en un mercado caliente y competitivo. Al final, Pegasus está en el mismo negocio que WhatsApp —espiar al usuario a través de sus propios dispositivos—, pero no existiría sin él. Los dos son la verdadera amenaza contra nuestro modelo de sociedad."

https://elpais.com/opinion/2024-12-30/la-vigilancia-que-devoro-occidente.html

#CyberSecurity #Surveillance #Spyware #NSOGroup #Pegasus #WhatsApp

Großartig!!! 🔥

#Pegasus-#Spähsoftware: #NSOGroup muss gegen WhatsApp einstecken

"In einem US-Gerichtsverfahren musste die NSO Group eine Niederlage einstecken. Nach einer wegweisenden Vorabentscheidung des Richters bleibt nur mehr offen, wie empfindlich das #israel'ische #Überwachungsunternehmen bestraft werden soll.

Dem Richter zufolge sei das israelische Überwachungsunternehmen #illegal in die Systeme des Messengers..."

#TeamDatenschutz #Staatstrojaner
https://netzpolitik.org/2024/nso-group-muss-gegen-whatsapp-einstecken/#netzpolitik-pw

US judge finds Pegasus spyware maker liable over WhatsApp hack | WhatsApp | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/20/whatsapp-pegasus-spyware-nso-group-hacking

#Israel #Pegasus #NSOGroup #Spyware #Surveillance #WhatsApp

"Security firm iVerify said a leader of a big company was among several individuals whose iPhones were recently targeted with the Pegasus spyware.

While journalists, human rights defenders, lawmakers, and political officials are frequent targets of state surveillance, reports of spyware compromising the phones of business leaders are rare, but not unheard of. The findings come as a fresh warning that spyware typically used by governments under the guise of preventing serious crime and terrorism can also be misused for commercial espionage.

In a call with TechCrunch this week, iVerify chief executive Rocky Cole declined to name who was targeted, but said that the spyware targeted a business “that you’ve heard about.” Cole, a former analyst at the National Security Agency, said the business leader, who iVerify is in contact with, was “completely surprised” by the attempt to compromise their phone."

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/04/business-leaders-among-pegasus-spyware-victims-says-security-firm/

#CyberSecurity #NSOGroup #Spyware #Pegasus #iPhone

"A lawyer who was allegedly hacked with government-grade spyware made by the infamous surveillance tech maker NSO Group has filed a complaint in court against two of the company’s founders and one executive. It appears to be the first attempt to hold the people behind a spyware company accountable for hacking crimes, rather than just the company itself.

On Wednesday, the Barcelona-based human rights nonprofit Iridia announced that it had filed a complaint in a Catalan court earlier this week accusing NSO’s founders Omri Lavie and Shalev Hulio, as well as Yuval Somekh, an executive of two affiliate companies, of hacking crimes.

Iridia represents lawyer Andreu Van den Eynde, an attorney and university professor who specializes in cybersecurity. According to a 2022 investigation by Citizen Lab, a nonprofit that has been investigating government spyware for more than a decade, Van den Eynde was among the victims of a wide-ranging hacking campaign against at least 65 Catalans linked to the region’s attempts to become independent from Spain, which was carried out using NSO’s Pegasus software. Amnesty International independently confirmed Citizen Lab’s findings."

https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/13/lawyer-allegedly-hacked-with-spyware-names-nso-founders-in-lawsuit/

#CyberSecurity #NSOGroup #Pegasus #Spyware #Spain #Hacking