Human rights groups have long argued that NSO Group exports technology that is being misused.
Human rights groups filed a petition in an Israeli court this week asking the government to revoke the license of a cybersecurity firm that reportedly created a type of malware that enabled attackers to spy on users of the popular messaging platform WhatsApp.
Human rights advocates and journalists, including the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was killed in October last year, have been targeted using the malware, according to experts. Researchers and human rights groups have been raising the alarm bells about NSO Group and their products for several years.
The human rights group Amnesty International claims that Israel’s Ministry of Defense has jeopardized human rights by allowing NSO Group to export its products abroad. Amnesty claims that its staff has been specifically targeted by the Pegasus malware, as have journalists in countries like Saudi Arabia, Mexico and the United Arab Emirates.
NSO Group was founded in Israel in 2010. The Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, part of the University of Toronto, has been researching the NSO Group and the abuse of its spyware since 2016 and determined that the company “fails to engage in adequate due diligence concerning the sale of their Pegasus spyware and its human rights impacts,” according to a letter dated February 28, 2019.
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