PARIS, July 22 — Israeli’s NSO Group is in the eye of a storm over its Pegasus spyware — but it is far from the only company helping governments with their covert surveillance operations.
“So it’s not just the world’s foremost intelligence agencies that can purchase them — it’s smaller governments, or local police agencies.” And in 2017, Citizen Lab found that Ethiopia had used spyware developed by Cyberbit — yet another Israeli firm — to infect the computers of exiled dissidents. “There are multiple factors why we see a lot of Israeli companies,” Deibert said.
Like Pegasus, Germany’s FinFisher is marketed as a tool to help intelligence and law enforcement agencies to fight crime.
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