Israeli security services are collaborating with spyware companies, including the maker of the controversial Pegasus software, to track hostages in the Gaza Strip. Groups associated with Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran have been running cyber espionage, data theft, hack-and-leak operations, and targeting industrial control facilities. Israeli tech workers are using innovation and AI in the search for hostages. Some spyware firms, previously blacklisted by the US, are being utilized despite the restrictions. The collaboration highlights the need for a change in Israel's approach to offensive cyber operations.
'The war room': Israeli tech workers band together in hostage search https://t.co/x6wfwgSzlV
Israeli security agencies have ordered digital cyber espionage companies NSO and Kandiro to enhance their spyware to help locate Israeli prisoners in the Gaza Strip. https://t.co/LGgfnMFrQ5
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To track Hamas' hostages, Israel is reportedly turning to homegrown spyware firms NSO Group and Candiru, which have earned infamy in the cyber community for helping authoritarian regimes spy on dissidents, journalists, and human-rights groups. https://t.co/T91ouxkPpR https://t.co/W5PLGwSxPc
Israel is using blacklisted spyware makers to track hostages in the Gaza Strip, sources say https://t.co/2S5WBSIsRb https://t.co/BwhI8F0QUh
Israeli tech workers bring innovation, AI to search for hostages held in Gaza https://t.co/MRn0fru9bw . Click to read ⬇️
Israel is turning to spyware firms it previously curbed after the U.S. blacklisted them to help track hostages in Gaza: "There will have to be a change in how Israel relates to offensive cyber. I expect there will be more budget allotted to this sector" https://t.co/WgVadRhYx1
Israel’s security services are pulling in spyware companies, including the maker of the controversial Pegasus software, to help track hostages in the Gaza Strip, sources say https://t.co/zsyC4rDJqc
Israel’s security services are pulling in spyware companies, including the maker of the controversial Pegasus software, to help track hostages in the Gaza Strip, sources say https://t.co/KCeUEZEiI8
‘The war room’: Israeli tech workers band together in hostage search https://t.co/CmDh9o70Uc
🗞️In @CyberScoopNews: "Groups thought to be associated with Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran have been active for years, running operations ranging from cyber espionage and data theft to hack-and-leak operations, as well as the targeting of industrial control facilities," @LabsSentinel… https://t.co/PlTlKF0Dij
🗞️In @CyberScoop: "Groups thought to be associated with Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran have been active for years, running operations ranging from cyber espionage and data theft to hack-and-leak operations, as well as the targeting of industrial control facilities," @LabsSentinel… https://t.co/o1KcB8dKHl