Technical First Light! The Inouye Solar Telescope’s Visible Tunable Filtergraph (VTF) looks at the #Sun for the first time. VTF was developed and built at the Institute for Solar Physics (KIS) in Freiburg. #MPSGoettingen is a partner of the project. Read more here: https://www.mps.mpg.de/the-heart-of-world-s-largest-solar-telescope-begins-to-beat
image credit: VTF/KIS/NSF/NSO/AURA
A judge has placed a restriction on #NSO and has forbidden the company from sharing data on its customers
Experts believe NSO was trying to portray its customers as law enforcement agencies and their operations as legitimate investigations in an attempt to justify its hacking of over 1,400 #WhatsApp users
Many of these victims have proven to be government critics and #journalist and certainly not the targets of legitimate investigations
https://cyberscoop.com/whatsapp-nso-group-trial-judge-limits-evidence-2025/ #spyware
#NSO lawyer names #Mexico, #SaudiArabia, and #Uzbekistan as #spyware customers accused of 2019 #WhatsApp hacks
#spyware maker #NSO Group has hired a new lobby team to petition the 
White House and have its sanctions lifted
.. the new team has ties to the Republican party and the administration. #NSO previously sunk $1.8 mil. into a pre-election lobbying effort that targeted Texas lawmakers ahead of last year's elections
Biden administration added NSO to the US Commerce Department entity list in 2022
https://www.wired.com/story/nso-group-the-vogel-group-lobbying-trump-administration/
"Now, an exhibit published in the court document shows exactly in what countries 1,223 specific victims were located when they were targeted with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware.
The country breakdown is a rare insight into which NSO Group customers may be more active, and where their victims and targets are located.
The countries with the most victims of this campaign are Mexico, with 456 individuals; India, with 100; Bahrain with 82; Morocco, with 69; Pakistan, with 58; Indonesia, with 54; and Israel, with 51, according to a chart titled “Victim Country Count,” that WhatsApp submitted as part of the case.
There are also victims in Western countries like Spain (21 victims), the Netherlands (11), Hungary (8), France (7), United Kingdom (2), and one victim in the United States."
Leben nach der #NSO #Group: #Dreamteam der Stehaufmännchen
Gemeinsam mit dem ehemaligen Chef der NSO Group betreibt der österreichische Ex-Kanzler Sebastian Kurz ein IT-Sicherheitsunternehmen. Nun fördert eine Recherche Details darüber zutage, mit welchen Versprechen die undurchsichtige KI-Firma internationale Kunden lockt.
https://netzpolitik.org/2025/leben-nach-der-nso-group-dreamteam-der-stehaufmaennchen/#netzpolitik-pw
#Spyware Maker #NSOGroup Is Paving a Path Back Into Trump’s America
The #Israeli spyware maker, still on the US Commerce Department’s “blacklist,” has hired a new #lobbying firm with direct ties to the #Trump administration, a WIRED investigation has found.
#blacklist #nso #Israel
https://www.wired.com/story/nso-group-the-vogel-group-lobbying-trump-administration/
Just lovely… Spyware maker NSO, still on the US Commerce Department’s “blacklist,” has hired a new lobbying firm with direct ties to the Trump administration. https://www.wired.com/story/nso-group-the-vogel-group-lobbying-trump-administration/ #spyware #nso #trump #infosec
Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly
I know. I know. This game is broken AF. I get it. I was there.
But goddamnit, I still have nostalgia for this game and enjoyed it. It’s MY broken AF #Spyro game!
I was able to get this game for sale back in the day and had an enjoyable time with it.
This is probably the LEAST likely game on my wishlist to make it to NSO. I totally get that. But the heart wants what the heart wants.
'Undo' Israel's offensive cyber collapse?
On Monday April 7 (2025) Netanyahu will probably try to convince Trump to 'Make Israel's Offensive Cyber Industry Great Again', including the likes of NSO (*).
(*) From (extremely pro-Zionist) https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/04/04/how-the-us-led-to-israels-offensive-cyber-collapse/:
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The 2018 murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a case that implicated NSO, marked a turning point in American policy toward offensive cyber generally and Israeli companies specifically.
[...]
Everything changed in November 2021, however, when the US Department of Commerce announced that two leading Israeli cyber companies – NSO and Candiru – had been added to the "Entity List" of organizations whose activities conflict with American national security interests.
[...] ❞
I expect Trump to be all ears, and to handle accordingly. Be careful out there.
Again and again, #NSO Group’s customers keep getting their #spyware operations caught | TechCrunch
On Thursday, #AmnestyInternational published a new report detailing attempted #hacks against two #Serbian #journalists, allegedly carried out with NSO Group’s spyware #Pegasus.
#privacy #security
Researchers name six countries as likely customers of Paragon's #spyware | TechCrunch
#Paragon has long tried to distinguish itself from competitors, such as #NSO Group — whose spyware has been abused in several countries — by claiming to be a more responsible spyware vendor. In 2021, an unnamed senior Paragon executive told Forbes that #authoritarian or non-democratic regimes would never be its customers.
#privacy #surveillance
Four classic Koei games are coming to #Switch Online next week, including some long running series
Details: https://www.maxi-geek.com/con/switch-online-four-classic-koei-titles-join-the-line-up
Went to an open rehearsal of the National Symphony Orchestra at the #KennedyCenter this morning. It was pleasantly non-weird. But I dread what happens at the KenCen once all current bookings are fulfilled. The executive director of the #NSO asked us all to buy tickets to concerts so the artists will know of our support.
A Barcelona court ruled that the co-founders of spyware maker NSO Group, Omri Lavie and Shalev Hulio, and former executive of two affiliate companies Yuval Somekh, can be indicted as part of an investigation into the alleged hacking of Catalan lawyer Andreu Van den Eynde. #Israeli #NSO #Pegasusspyware https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/05/catalan-court-says-nso-group-executives-can-be-charged-in-spyware-investigation/
*Must read* & please boost!
“How Israel is weaponising everyday tech into terror devices”
by Palestine Will Be Free on Substack
“And why you will never be safe again”
Les sociétés en #Israel #paragon et #nso conçoivent des logiciels espions qui s'installent sur les téléphones sans avoir a cliquer sur un lien
En Italie #Meloni utilisent Paragon pour traquer les journalistes, opposants et organisations d'aide aux migrants
Le Monde – Près d’une centaine de personnes visées par un logiciel espion de la société israélienne Paragon, selon WhatsApp https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2025/01/31/pres-d-une-centaine-de-personnes-visees-par-un-logiciel-espion-de-la-societe-israelienne-paragon-selon-whatsapp_6525644_4408996.html?lmd_medium=al&lmd_campaign=envoye-par-appli&lmd_creation=android&lmd_source=default
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