(16 Jan 2020) An Israeli court on Thursday heard a case brought forward by Amnesty International aimed at forcing Israel to revoke the export license of a company that manufactures surveillance software.
NSO Group, an Israeli surveillance company, has been implicated in a series of digital break-in attempts.
These included a campaign to compromise proponents of a soda tax in Mexico and to hack into the phone of an Arab dissident that prompted an update to Apple's operating system.
Amnesty International claims the group's Pegasus software has been used to target journalists and dissidents around the world.
The court case is the latest push-back against NSO.
Last year, Facebook sued the Israeli hacker-for-hire company in a US federal court for allegedly targeting some 1,400 users of its encrypted messaging service WhatsApp with highly sophisticated spyware.
The spyware has also been implicated in the gruesome killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was dismembered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018.
NSO Group's flagship malware Pegasus allows spies to effectively take control of a phone - remotely and surreptitiously controlling its cameras and microphones from remote servers to collect personal and geolocation data.
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