MERCENARY MAYHEM
A technical analysis of Intellexa's PREDATOR spyware - 2023 https://blog.talosintelligence.com/mercenary-intellexa-predator/

Spyware suppliers take great care to make the final payloads difficult to detect, obtain, analyze and protect against by creating deployment sequences that often require little or no user interaction. The delivery mechanism is usually an exploit chain that can start a zero-click exploit, like #FORCEDENTRY, which is produced by Israeli spyware firm #NSO Group, or with a link that the victim is tricked into clicking (i.e., a “one-click” exploit), like the one created by the surveillance company Cytrox to deploy their own spyware known as “PREDATOR.” (Note: #Cytrox is owned by Intellexa, which sells the #PREDATOR spyware.)

#spyware #israel

Israel Invested in Spyware That Brought Down Greek Spymaster - Haaretz - June 2023

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