Also, Alexander Nix did specifically admit on camera (UK Chamnel 4) to interfering in elections in Eastern Europe and Africa despite Christopher Wiley retracting this assertion in his congressional testimony.
Thrre is an interesting association beteeen Black Cube and NSO Group who are involved in corporate espionage and exploit iphone vulnerabilities and can hack your iphone with a single text message.
Co-founders Shalev Hulio and Omri Levie are believed to be alumni of Israel’s famous Unit 8200 signals intelligence arm, as are many of the country’s security entrepreneurs. Lavie and his co-entrepreneurs also founded Kaymera, a company designed to solve the exact problems NSO created: a super-secure phone for government officials.
NSO has close partnerships with a variety of other Israeli surveillance firms as they seek to spread their spy kit across the world. These include Ability Inc, a troubled supplier of an as-yet unproven technology called the Unlimited Interception System (ULIN). The tool exploits a crucial part of the global telecoms infrastructure known as SS7, allowing interception of calls and texts, and collection of target location, all with just a phone number, according to the firm. Of NSO, Ability founder and CEO Anatoly Hurgin
Franscisco Partners, is the parent company of Circles. Circles based between Cyprus and Bulgaria, was founded by former IDF commander Tal Dilian. Circles does similar work to Ability, hacking SS7 for government contracts.
Cellebrite, has also been in communication with NSO. NSO helped Cellebrite with the hack of an iPhone 5C that belonged to San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook. NSO also employs ex-staffers from a variety of other notable Israeli intelligence vendors, including Nice Systems and Elbit. Among Lavie’s LinkedIn contacts is a notable individual: Chaouki Bekrar. He is the co-founder of two vulnerability research organizations: VUPEN and Zerodium. They make money from buying and selling zero-days.
SS7 Vulnerability
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