{"id":3813,"date":"2021-11-26T16:45:09","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T15:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/26\/amoral-21st-century-mercenaries-problems-mount-for-nso-group\/"},"modified":"2021-11-26T16:45:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T15:45:09","slug":"amoral-21st-century-mercenaries-problems-mount-for-nso-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/26\/amoral-21st-century-mercenaries-problems-mount-for-nso-group\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Amoral 21st-century mercenaries\u2019: problems mount for NSO Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli spyware firm goes from bad to worse as scathing Apple lawsuit follows US blacklisting<\/p>\n<p>Shalev Hulio, the co-founder of Israel\u2019s NSO Group, was in Washington DC on a mission to try to resuscitate the surveillance company\u2019s battered reputation on Capitol Hill shortly before the news broke that he had probably arrived too late to make a difference.<\/p>\n<p>With little advance warning to its allies in Israel, the Biden administration announced on 3 November that it was putting the spyware maker \u2013 one of the most sophisticated cyber-weapons companies in the world \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/nov\/03\/nso-group-pegasus-spyware-us-blacklist\">on a US blacklist<\/a>, citing use of the company\u2019s software by regimes around the world for \u201ctransnational repression\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/26\/amoral-21st-century-mercenaries-problems-mount-nso-group\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/9e5145a0bec23049db8828f79049464e8b710131\/0_75_3333_2000\/master\/3333.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ab9c48791a22cd35a8c26ead83747d80\" title=\"\u2018Amoral 21st-century mercenaries\u2019: problems mount for NSO Group\" \/>Israeli spyware firm goes from bad to worse as scathing Apple lawsuit follows US blacklisting<br \/>\nShalev Hulio, the co-founder of Israel\u2019s NSO Group, was in Washington DC on a mission to try to resuscitate the surveillance company\u2019s battered reputation on Capitol Hill shortly before the news broke that he had probably arrived too late to make a difference.<br \/>\nWith little advance warning to its allies in Israel, the Biden administration announced on 3 November that it was putting the spyware maker \u2013 one of the most sophisticated cyber-weapons companies in the world \u2013 on a US blacklist, citing use of the company\u2019s software by regimes around the world for \u201ctransnational repression\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli spyware firm goes from bad to worse as scathing Apple lawsuit follows US blacklisting Shalev Hulio, the co-founder of Israel\u2019s NSO Group, was in Washington DC on a mission to try to resuscitate the surveillance company\u2019s battered reputation on Capitol Hill shortly before the news broke that he had probably arrived too late to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/26\/amoral-21st-century-mercenaries-problems-mount-for-nso-group\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Amoral 21st-century mercenaries\u2019: problems mount for NSO Group<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}