by Start Magazine editorial staff Pegasus case: The United States added the Israeli company Nso Group to the federal blacklist, banning the company - known for the Pegasus spyware - from receiving American technology components. All the details
The United States added the Israeli company Nso Group to the federal blacklist, banning the company - known for its Pegasus spyware, which remotely monitors smartphones - from receiving American technology components. The Commerce Department framed the decision as part of the Biden administration's commitment to "put human rights at the center of US foreign policy, including working to eradicate the proliferation of digital tools used for repression." Pegasus spyware was at the center of a massive journalistic investigation that found that it was being used by some governments to spy on and attack journalists, businessmen, activists and diplomats. The reason is that the company "acted contrary to the interests of US foreign policy and national security". The story had been unveiled by an international consortium of journalists and among the leaders who would have been spied on was also the French president Emmanuel Macron. According to Axios-based journalist Barak Ravid, the Biden administration notified the Israeli government of the decision to sanction NSO just an hour before the announcement. (article being updated)
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