Forwarded from Pegasus NSO & other spyware
The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union and its coordinated fight against the use of Pegasus spyware - Media Defence – June 2023
#Pegasus #NSO #Hungary #spyware
The main problem is that Hungarian national security laws permit the government and its officials to use spyware tools to monitor citizens – without any judicial oversight. Even though it has been revealed by investigative journalists that Pegasus was used against journalists, we still know very little about this use. Decision-makers are able to keep everything secret.
People who were spied on with Pegasus could not access any information about their surveillance. They also could not find out the reasons that they were targeted. Another important issue is that there are no judicial procedures to provide remedies for those who have been targeted by the spyware. Under Hungarian law it seems impossible to achieve justice.#Pegasus #NSO #Hungary #spyware
Forwarded from Pegasus NSO & other spyware
Israel Invested in Spyware That Brought Down Greek Spymaster - Haaretz - June 2023
#Greece #Grèce #NSO #Cytrox #Predator #Pegasus #Cyprus
#Inpedio #CyberLab #Macedonia #Israel #Singapore
#Intellexa #Chypre #spyware
#IAI
Two firms, one office
Haaretz has reviewed corporate documents from the Netherlands, Hungary, North Macedonia, Singapore and Israel that show that the two firms’ founders and directors were the same Israelis. Inpedio was registered in the Netherlands in 2016 by two founders: Rotem Farkash and Abraham Rubinstein. The very same Farkash and Rubinstein would establish Cytrox Holdings in Hungary - where IAI invested in - and a subsidiary, Cytrox Software, in North Macedonia, in 2017. The two registered Cytrox with their Inpedio email accounts.
Farkash is a hacker-turned-cyber-entrepreneur who later became a partner and senior official in Intellexa, an alliance of digital surveillance firms founded in Cyprus and Greece by former Israeli army intelligence commander Tal Dilian.
#Greece #Grèce #NSO #Cytrox #Predator #Pegasus #Cyprus
#Inpedio #CyberLab #Macedonia #Israel #Singapore
#Intellexa #Chypre #spyware
#IAI