{"id":699,"date":"2021-03-01T06:31:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T05:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/01\/israeli-spyware-firm-nso-group-faces-renewed-us-scrutiny\/"},"modified":"2021-03-01T06:31:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T05:31:36","slug":"israeli-spyware-firm-nso-group-faces-renewed-us-scrutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/01\/israeli-spyware-firm-nso-group-faces-renewed-us-scrutiny\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli spyware firm NSO Group faces renewed US scrutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Department of Justice said to have asked WhatsApp for details of alleged targeting of clients in 2019<\/p>\n<p>NSO Group appears to be facing renewed scrutiny by the US Department of Justice months after leading technology companies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/dec\/22\/nso-group-spyware-dangerous-say-tech-firms-in-legal-filing\">said the spyware maker was \u201cpowerful and dangerous\u201d<\/a> and should be held liable to the country\u2019s anti-hacking laws.<\/p>\n<p>DoJ lawyers recently approached the messaging app WhatsApp with technical questions about the alleged targeting of 1,400 of its users by NSO Group\u2019s government clients in 2019, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/01\/israeli-spyware-firm-nso-group-faces-renewed-us-scrutiny\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/57016007b7552f124dc87ca149b0eea8a790a867\/538_426_3122_1873\/master\/3122.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b35cf64b639c8c6821dd004eedeb823c\" title=\"Israeli spyware firm NSO Group faces renewed US scrutiny\" \/>Department of Justice said to have asked WhatsApp for details of alleged targeting of clients in 2019<br \/>\nNSO Group appears to be facing renewed scrutiny by the US Department of Justice months after leading technology companies said the spyware maker was \u201cpowerful and dangerous\u201d and should be held liable to the country\u2019s anti-hacking laws.<br \/>\nDoJ lawyers recently approached the messaging app WhatsApp with technical questions about the alleged targeting of 1,400 of its users by NSO Group\u2019s government clients in 2019, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department of Justice said to have asked WhatsApp for details of alleged targeting of clients in 2019 NSO Group appears to be facing renewed scrutiny by the US Department of Justice months after leading technology companies said the spyware maker was \u201cpowerful and dangerous\u201d and should be held liable to the country\u2019s anti-hacking laws. DoJ &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/01\/israeli-spyware-firm-nso-group-faces-renewed-us-scrutiny\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Israeli spyware firm NSO Group faces renewed US scrutiny<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":700,"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\/699"}],"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=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}