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A New Age of Warfare: How Internet Mercenaries Do Battle for Authoritarian Governments nytimes.com/2019/03/21/us/…
NSO Group, Mr. al-Qahtani spoke of grand plans to use its surveillance tools throughout the Middle East and Europe, like Turkey and Qatar or France and Britain.
nytimes.com/2019/03/21/us/…
Today even the smallest countries can buy digital espionage services, enabling them to conduct sophisticated operations like electronic eavesdropping or influence campaigns that were once the preserve of major powers like the United States and Russia.
nytimes.com/2019/03/21/us/…
Corporations that want to scrutinize competitors’ secrets, or a wealthy individual with a beef against a rival, can also command intelligence operations for a price, akin to purchasing off-the-shelf elements of the National Security Agency or the Mossad.
nytimes.com/2019/03/21/us/…
NSO and a competitor, the Emirati firm DarkMatter, exemplify the proliferation of privatized spying.
nytimes.com/2019/03/21/us/…
💣NSO💣
Pegasus: The ultimate spyware for iOS and Android

Pegasus has been attributed to the NSO Group, an Israeli company whose bread and butter is developing spyware. (+ Kasperski?)

Israeli & Russian intel partnership?.
kaspersky.com/blog/pegasus-s…
📌Israel signed off on sale of phone spying tool to Saudi Arabia — report

📌Washington Post cites US officials who say export of NSO's Pegasus program was approved despite hesitation from some Israelis over selling sensitive technology to Arab country
timesofisrael.com/israel-okayed-…
NSO an Israeli company known for its sophisticated phone surveillance technology rejected accusations that its snooping software helped lead to the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
apnews.com/ca8d2394c1694b…
🏵NSO🏵
The Secretive Billion-Dollar Company Helping Governments Hack Our Phones
Implicated in attacks on dissidents,

📌📌NSO has sought a deal with Blackstone and worked with Trump adviser Michael Flynn amid a cyberweapons gold rush.
fastcompany.com/40469864/the-b…
💣DarkMatter💣

💣Project Raven💣

💣Karma Spy Tool💣
🌰Hackers & Spy Tools🌰

📌Folks, we aren’t living in Kansas anymore.

📌We are hacked, micro targeted, psyoped, influenced by bad actors by hackers, dirty tricker political operatives, & hostile foreign gov’ts.

📌📌The firms have enabled governments not only to hack criminal elements like terrorist groups and drug cartels but also in some cases to act on darker impulses, targeting activists and journalists.

nytimes.com/2019/03/21/us/…
The F.B.I. is investigating current and former American employees of DarkMatter for possible cybercrimes, according to four people familiar with the investigation.

nytimes.com/2019/03/21/us/…
The inquiry intensified after a former N.S.A. hacker working for the company grew concerned about its activities and contacted the F.B.I

📌📌See up thread:

PROJECT RAVEN &
KARMA SPY TOOL threads.

nytimes.com/2019/03/21/us/…
NSO and DarkMatter also compete fiercely with each other, paying handsomely to lure top hacking talent from Israel, the United States and other countries, and sometimes pilfering recruits from each other, The Times found.

nytimes.com/2019/03/21/us/…
The ME is the epicenter of this new era of privatized spying. Besides DarkMatter and NSO, there is Black Cube run by former Mossad and Israeli military intel operatives that gained notoriety after Harvey Weinstein, hired it to dig up dirt on his accusers.

nytimes.com/2019/03/21/us/…
📌Black Cube: Inside the shadowy Israeli firm accused of trying to undermine the Iran deal

📌An NBC News investigation reveals a business intelligence company with governmental contracts and a special department for politically motivated work.
nbcnews.com/news/world/bla…
📌Israel's Black Cube Apparently Linked to Trump 'Echo Chamber' Memo Against Obama Aides
Black Cube denies claim, saying it 'does not get involved in politics, and has no relation whatsoever to the Trump administration'
haaretz.com/israel-news/fa…
📌Psy-Group, an Israeli company specializing in social media manipulation, worked for Russian oligarchs and in 2016 pitched the Trump campaign on a plan to build an online army of bots and avatars to swing Republican delegate votes.
nytimes.com/2019/03/21/us/…
📌📌Rick Gates Sought Online Manipulation Plans From Israeli Intelligence Firm for Trump Campaign
nytimes.com/2018/10/08/us/…
💣Psy Group - WikiStrat💣
📌Last year, Elliott Broidy, sued the government of Qatar and a New York firm run by a former C.I.A. officer, Global Risk Advisors, for what he said was a sophisticated breach of his company that led to thousands of his emails spilling into public.
nytimes.com/2019/03/21/us/…
💣Elliott Broidy💣

📌A judge dismissed Mr. Broidy’s lawsuit, but suspicions have grown that Qatar had a hand in other operations, including the hacking and leaking of the emails of Yousef al-Otaiba, the influential Emirati ambassador in Washington.
nytimes.com/2019/03/21/us/…
⚠️Alert⚠️

The rapid expansion of this global high-tech battleground, where armies of cybermercenaries clash, has prompted warnings of a dangerous and chaotic future.
nytimes.com/2019/03/21/us/…
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#CyberWarFare
#CyberTools
#ProjectRaven
#KarmaTool
#DarkMatter
#Pegasus
#NSO
#PsyGroup
#BlackCube
#Broidy
#Gates
#Khashoggi
#Weinstein
#Hackers
Rick Gates Sought Online Manipulation Plans From Israeli Intelligence Firm for Trump Campaign
nytimes.com/2018/10/08/us/…
💣Psy Group - WikiStrat💣
Last year, Elliott Broidy, sued the government of Qatar and a New York firm run by a former C.I.A. officer, Global Risk Advisors, for what he said was a sophisticated breach of his company that led to thousands of his emails spilling into public.
nytimes.com/2019/03/21/us/…
💣Elliott Broidy💣

A judge dismissed Mr. Broidy’s lawsuit, but suspicions have grown that Qatar had a hand in other operations, including the hacking and leaking of the emails of Yousef al-Otaiba, the influential Emirati ambassador in Washington.
nytimes.com/2019/03/21/us/…
⚠️Alert⚠️

The rapid expansion of this global high-tech battleground, where armies of cybermercenaries clash, has prompted warnings of a dangerous and chaotic future.
nytimes.com/2019/03/21/us/…
@threadreaderapp unroll please and thank you.

#CyberWarFare
#CyberTools
#ProjectRaven
#KarmaTool
#DarkMatter
#Pegasus
#NSO
#PsyGroup
#BlackCube
#Broidy
#Gates
#Khashoggi
#Weinstein
#Hackers
#Sepulveda
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