The US has added NSO Group, the Israeli military spyware company that created software traced to the phones of journalists and human rights activists around the world, to a trade blacklist as it targets the growing surveillance threat posed by hacking-for-hire companies.
NSO and a competitor, Tel Aviv-based Candiru, were among four companies added by the commerce department on Wednesday to its so-called entity list, which would restrict exports of US hardware and software to the companies.
Groups like NSO use developer versions of popular operating software to develop “zero-click exploits”, which do not require the user to open a malicious link to deploy, according to a person familiar with their practices.
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