What is the Israeli Nso Group doing?
NSO Group: who could be behind it and how far will the controversial Israeli intelligence company go?
The surprises – both unpleasant and disturbing – reserved by the Israeli computer company NSO are becoming increasingly relevant and global in scope.
In fact, the Reuters news agency reported that the cell phones of nine US State Department employees were hacked and thanks to the Israeli NSO spyware. These officials were in Uganda.
Who and why they used this spyware is still unclear. Was it the Ugandan security services? Or some other foreign country that is competing with the United States for control of Uganda?
The usual denial came from the Israeli company: according to the company, in fact, there are no indications that their spyware was actually used to the detriment of State Department employees.
Once again this episode demonstrates two incontrovertible facts: the first is that Israel is now able to build highly effective and globally widespread spyware and the second element on which we would like to draw the attention of readers is the fact that entrusting to private companies the the use and creation of such dangerous tools constitutes an error that can lead to the emergence of serious political and diplomatic tensions between nations, as well as the violation of rights related to privacy.
Always assuming, of course, that behind these private companies there is not the hand of the Israeli state and, specifically, of the Mossad. Always admitted …
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/che-cosa-combina-lisraeliana-nso-group/ on Sun, 05 Dec 2021 09:27:36 +0000.