NSO Group Closes Cyprus Office of Spy Firm
NSO recently closed the Cyprus office of phone network exploitation company Circles and fired a number of staff, according to two former NSO employees.
Controversial phone hacking company NSO Group has closed the Cyprus office of Circles, a surveillance firm that previously merged with NSO, and fired a number of staff, according to two former NSO employees.
Cyprus is a hotbed for surveillance companies that sometimes set up shop in the country and then sell their technology from the region.
"They fired all the Cyprus office," one of the former NSO employees told Motherboard.
"All Cyprus site was closed recently; all of the people fired," the second former employee added. Motherboard granted the sources anonymity as they weren't authorized to speak to the press about internal company issues, and to avoid retaliation from NSO.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ep48kp/nso-group-cyprus-circles-bulgaria-ss7
#Israel #Cyprus #NSO #spy #firm
NSO recently closed the Cyprus office of phone network exploitation company Circles and fired a number of staff, according to two former NSO employees.
Controversial phone hacking company NSO Group has closed the Cyprus office of Circles, a surveillance firm that previously merged with NSO, and fired a number of staff, according to two former NSO employees.
Cyprus is a hotbed for surveillance companies that sometimes set up shop in the country and then sell their technology from the region.
"They fired all the Cyprus office," one of the former NSO employees told Motherboard.
"All Cyprus site was closed recently; all of the people fired," the second former employee added. Motherboard granted the sources anonymity as they weren't authorized to speak to the press about internal company issues, and to avoid retaliation from NSO.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ep48kp/nso-group-cyprus-circles-bulgaria-ss7
#Israel #Cyprus #NSO #spy #firm
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NSO Group Closes Cyprus Office of Spy Firm
NSO recently closed the Cyprus office of phone network exploitation company Circles and fired a number of staff, according to two former NSO employees.
Two members of movie piracy group 'Sparks' arrested in Cyprus and the US
Investigators said the group posed as real-world DVD/Blu-Ray retailers to obtain and leak unreleased movies and TV shows.
Officials from the US Department of Justice have unsealed today charges against three men involved in a movie piracy group known as Sparks.
According to court documents, the group's members operated by "fraudulently" obtaining DVDs and Blu-Ray discs storing unreleased movie and television shows, breaking copyright protections through a process called "ripping," and releasing the shows online, where they were taken and disseminated via illegal video streaming portals or torrent sites.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/two-members-of-movie-piracy-group-sparks-arrested-in-cyprus-and-the-us/
#Europe #Cyprus #US #movie #piracy
Investigators said the group posed as real-world DVD/Blu-Ray retailers to obtain and leak unreleased movies and TV shows.
Officials from the US Department of Justice have unsealed today charges against three men involved in a movie piracy group known as Sparks.
According to court documents, the group's members operated by "fraudulently" obtaining DVDs and Blu-Ray discs storing unreleased movie and television shows, breaking copyright protections through a process called "ripping," and releasing the shows online, where they were taken and disseminated via illegal video streaming portals or torrent sites.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/two-members-of-movie-piracy-group-sparks-arrested-in-cyprus-and-the-us/
#Europe #Cyprus #US #movie #piracy
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
Forwarded from 🇵🇸 Automated Apartheid in Palestine
🇵🇸 U.S. spies have ‘wide range’ of facilities on UK’s Cyprus base near Gaza—and share material ‘daily’ with Israel | Declassified UK
US spies have widespread access to Britain’s bases on Cyprus and share information ‘daily’ with their Israeli counterparts, leaked top secret documents show.
The British so-called Sovereign Base Areas (#SBA) on Cyprus, which comprise 3% of the island’s landmass, sit just 200 miles from #Gaza. The bases are said to be the largest British #intelligence facilities outside of the #UK, although they have never been officially acknowledged.
“Cyprus hosts a wide range of UK and US intelligence facilities”, notes a top secret document from #GCHQ, Britain’s largest spy agency. The document adds: “#Cyprus collection facilities are acknowledged by #NSA as important assets”.
The main US spy agency working on the British territory in Cyprus is the National Security Agency (NSA).
#Palestine #OPT #Intel #WarCrimes #Complicity #Genocide #5Eyes #Nato
04/12/2023
US spies have widespread access to Britain’s bases on Cyprus and share information ‘daily’ with their Israeli counterparts, leaked top secret documents show.
The British so-called Sovereign Base Areas (#SBA) on Cyprus, which comprise 3% of the island’s landmass, sit just 200 miles from #Gaza. The bases are said to be the largest British #intelligence facilities outside of the #UK, although they have never been officially acknowledged.
“Cyprus hosts a wide range of UK and US intelligence facilities”, notes a top secret document from #GCHQ, Britain’s largest spy agency. The document adds: “#Cyprus collection facilities are acknowledged by #NSA as important assets”.
The main US spy agency working on the British territory in Cyprus is the National Security Agency (NSA).
#Palestine #OPT #Intel #WarCrimes #Complicity #Genocide #5Eyes #Nato
04/12/2023
Forwarded from 🇵🇸 Automated Apartheid in Palestine
🇵🇸 Britain has flown 50 spy missions over Gaza in support of Israel | Declassified UK
The UK military refuses to tell Declassified what #intelligence it is sharing with #Israel as we reveal the extraordinary number of surveillance flights #Britain is undertaking over Gaza from its base on #Cyprus
The #UK military has flown 50 #surveillance missions over Gaza since December, it can be revealed.
The flights have taken off from Britain’s controversial air base on Cyprus, #RAF #Akrotiri, and averaged around one a day since the beginning of December.
When asked the UK government refused to provide the number of spy flights, but Declassified has analysed flight tracking records.
The #British plane used is the Shadow R1, which is known as an intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance (#ISTAR) aircraft.
Video : Spying on Gaza, Bombing Yemen: Colonial British Base Angers Cypriots
#Gaza #Sigint #Nato
18/01/2024
The UK military refuses to tell Declassified what #intelligence it is sharing with #Israel as we reveal the extraordinary number of surveillance flights #Britain is undertaking over Gaza from its base on #Cyprus
The #UK military has flown 50 #surveillance missions over Gaza since December, it can be revealed.
The flights have taken off from Britain’s controversial air base on Cyprus, #RAF #Akrotiri, and averaged around one a day since the beginning of December.
When asked the UK government refused to provide the number of spy flights, but Declassified has analysed flight tracking records.
The #British plane used is the Shadow R1, which is known as an intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance (#ISTAR) aircraft.
Video : Spying on Gaza, Bombing Yemen: Colonial British Base Angers Cypriots
#Gaza #Sigint #Nato
18/01/2024