{"id":5537,"date":"2022-04-28T12:36:15","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T10:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/28\/private-equity-executive-sought-to-undermine-nso-critics-data-suggests\/"},"modified":"2022-04-28T12:36:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T10:36:15","slug":"private-equity-executive-sought-to-undermine-nso-critics-data-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/28\/private-equity-executive-sought-to-undermine-nso-critics-data-suggests\/","title":{"rendered":"Private equity executive sought to undermine NSO critics, data suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Information released under data protection laws sheds light on apparent effort to undermine Canadian research group Citizen Lab<\/p>\n<p>When Downing Street was recently named as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2022\/apr\/18\/no-10-suspected-of-being-target-of-nso-spyware-attack-boris-johnson\">suspected victim of a phone hack by the United Arab Emirates<\/a> using the Israeli-made spyware, Pegasus, few were surprised at who was behind the discovery.<\/p>\n<p>The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto has for years been a thorn in the side of the NSO Group, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/12\/cat-and-mouse-game-how-citizen-lab-shone-a-spotlight-on-israeli-spyware-firm-nso\">deciphering the company\u2019s sophisticated hacking tools and \u2013 crucially \u2013 identifying victims of the spyware<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/28\/private-equity-executive-sought-to-undermine-nso-critics-data-suggests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/9cc41d792f8138c683c4f1cf583c74f50dfa905e\/0_93_3543_2127\/master\/3543.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=1609bd26e5e1b66b0310e3444a8a6b03\" title=\"Private equity executive sought to undermine NSO critics, data suggests\" \/>Information released under data protection laws sheds light on apparent effort to undermine Canadian research group Citizen Lab<br \/>\nWhen Downing Street was recently named as the suspected victim of a phone hack by the United Arab Emirates using the Israeli-made spyware, Pegasus, few were surprised at who was behind the discovery.<br \/>\nThe Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto has for years been a thorn in the side of the NSO Group, deciphering the company\u2019s sophisticated hacking tools and \u2013 crucially \u2013 identifying victims of the spyware. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information released under data protection laws sheds light on apparent effort to undermine Canadian research group Citizen Lab When Downing Street was recently named as the suspected victim of a phone hack by the United Arab Emirates using the Israeli-made spyware, Pegasus, few were surprised at who was behind the discovery. The Citizen Lab at &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/28\/private-equity-executive-sought-to-undermine-nso-critics-data-suggests\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Private equity executive sought to undermine NSO critics, data suggests<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5538,"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\/5537"}],"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=5537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}