{"id":250,"date":"2024-11-28T05:04:58","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T05:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/28\/nso-group-spies-on-people-on-behalf-of-governments-html\/"},"modified":"2024-11-28T05:04:58","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T05:04:58","slug":"nso-group-spies-on-people-on-behalf-of-governments-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/28\/nso-group-spies-on-people-on-behalf-of-governments-html\/","title":{"rendered":"NSO Group Spies on People on Behalf of Governments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>NSO Group Spies on People on Behalf of Governments<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Israeli company NSO Group sells Pegasus spyware to countries around the world (including countries like Saudi Arabia, UAE, India, Mexico, Morocco and Rwanda). We assumed that those countries use the spyware themselves. Now we\u2019ve  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/nov\/14\/nso-pegasus-spyware-whatsapp\">learned<\/a> that that\u2019s not true: that NSO Group employees operate the spyware on behalf of their customers.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Legal documents released in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/feb\/29\/pegasus-surveillance-code-whatsapp-meta-lawsuit-nso-group\">ongoing US litigation between NSO Group and WhatsApp<\/a> have revealed for the first time that the Israeli cyberweapons maker \u00ad and not its government customers \u00ad is the party that \u201cinstalls and extracts\u201d information from mobile phones targeted by the company\u2019s hacking software.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bruce Schneier<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2024\/11\/nso-group-spies-on-people-on-behalf-of-governments.html\">Go to bruce schneier<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NSO Group Spies on People on Behalf of Governments The Israeli company NSO Group sells Pegasus spyware to countries around the world (including countries like Saudi Arabia, UAE, India, Mexico, Morocco and Rwanda). We assumed that those countries use the spyware themselves. Now we\u2019ve learned that that\u2019s not true: that NSO Group employees operate the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,250,251,97,252,253,1],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bruce-schneier","category-cyberespionage","category-espionage","category-hacking","category-israel","category-spyware","category-uncategorized","tag-bruce-schneier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}