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
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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
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Forwarded from Pegasus NSO & other spyware
The U.S. government has banned European commercial spyware manufacturers Intellexa and Cytrox - BleepingComputer - July 2023
#Intellexa #Cytrox #Greece #Macedonia #Hungary #Ireland #EU #US #Spyware
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The U.S. government has banned European commercial spyware manufacturers Intellexa and Cytrox, citing risks to U.S. national security and foreign policy interests.
The Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) added four commercial entities to its Entity List: Intellexa S.A. from Greece, Intellexa Limited from Ireland, Cytrox Holdings Zrt from Hungary, and Cytrox AD from North Macedonia.
This decision was motivated by the four companies' involvement in trafficking cyber exploits used to gain unauthorized access to the devices of high-risk individuals worldwide, threatening their security and privacy#Intellexa #Cytrox #Greece #Macedonia #Hungary #Ireland #EU #US #Spyware
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