Israel's Defense Ministry drastically restricts the country'scyber securityCompanies can sell aggressionhackerand the number of countries monitoring tools, with 65 countries removed from the export list.
Details of the revised list, first reported by Israeli business newspaper Calcalist, now include only 37 countries, down from the previous 102, as follows:
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, New Zealand New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States
Notably absent from the list are countries such as Morocco, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which have previously been identified as customers of Israeli spyware vendor NSO Group. In terms of restricting exports, the move effectively makes it harder for local cybersecurity companies to market their software to countries with totalitarian regimes or records of human rights abuses.
The move comes on the heels of the U.S. Commerce Department adding NSO Group and Candiru to its trade blacklist for developing and providing sophisticated interception or intrusion capabilities to foreign governments and then using espionage tools to target journalists, activists, dissidents, academics and the world Government officials everywhere.
Earlier this week, Apple followed suit with a lawsuit against NSO Group and its parent company Q Cyber Technologies, accusing it of illegally targeting its users using Pegasus, a military-grade spyware designed to collect sensitive information. personal and geolocation information and secretly activate your phone's camera and microphone.
The Atlantic Council detailed the proliferation of the cyber surveillance industry in a report released earlier this month, saying: “By marketing to [U.S./NATO adversaries], these companies signal their willingness to accept or ignore the potential for their products to Risks that enhance the capabilities of authoritarian and/or hostile governments that may use their products to target vulnerable populations within their own countries, other countries, or more effectively conduct foreign espionage,”
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