![]() Those questions, critics of Israel's cyber-surveillance industry say, have largely elicited a collective shrug in a country whose economy, security and foreign relations lean heavily on the murky world of cyber espionage and arms exports. You also didn't know that your software was installed in the phone of the fiancée of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered by representatives of the regime in Riyadh? All that you didn't know?" "You didn't know that the ruler of Dubai used Pegasus to track his daughter and wife?. "You didn't know about the software's very wide use against dozens of journalists in dozens of countries, to know what they are doing?" said anchor Ilana Dayan on Israeli Army Radio on July 22. Multiple Israeli news outlets questioned NSO executives as the investigative reports were published last month. The company told NPR it temporarily suspended some governments' access to its software, declining to name the countries, as it looked into potential abuse. Israeli defense officials announced an investigation and visited NSO's headquarters north of Tel Aviv, then briefed the French defense minister on its efforts. ![]() official told NPR, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss private diplomatic conversations. "Our concerns over this matter have been raised in meetings with senior Israeli officials," a senior U.S. Technology A Tech Firm Has Blocked Some Governments From Using Its Spyware Over Misuse Claims and intensified global scrutiny on NSO has put the Israeli company - and the Israeli government, which vets the company's sales - on the defensive. But outrage from France, questions from the U.S. NSO, no stranger to controversy over its spyware, denies any connection to the list of phone numbers, and insists it sells its technology solely to governments to combat terrorism and serious crime. It says the phone numbers selected by governments for surveillance belong to a staggering array of potential targets, including political dissidents, human rights activists, 180 journalists in nearly two dozen countries, a Dubai princess escaping her father, the fiancée of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and 14 heads of state, including French President Emmanuel Macron. ![]() The Pegasus Project, a consortium of international media outlets, says a leaked list of some 50,000 phone numbers showed that governments around the world sought NSO's cellphone hacking technology Pegasus to spy on people or mark them as potential targets, whether inside or beyond their own borders. officials, and the Israeli government plays a role. But one of its star cybersecurity companies, NSO Group, is at the center of an international spying scandal that has concerned U.S. JERUSALEM - Israel takes enormous pride in its high-tech industry. The logo of NSO Group displayed on a building where the Israeli cybersecurity company previously had offices, in Herzliya, Israel, in 2016.
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