The Pegasus affair hit the headlines all this summer. As a reminder, a consortium of journalists got their hands on a list of 50,000 telephone numbers spied on since 2016 by the spyware of the Israeli company NSO Group. Among them, journalists, renowned politicians, and activists opposed to certain regimes. We are therefore quite far from the initial promise which was to only monitor potential terrorists and criminals.
“A threat to national security”
Since then, there have been numerous international repercussions, and the latest one is undoubtedly the most significant. The United States has in fact decided to place NSO Group on a blacklist of companies to which numerous commercial restrictions apply. Uncle Sam indeed affirms that the activities of this company “are a threat to national security».
Concretely, American companies will still be able to exchange with NSO Group. But this decision greatly complicates transactions. Firms will have to request a license from the authorities and it may be refused.
From then on, the Israeli company's relations with partners such as Amazon Web Services will be more delicate. It should also have more difficulty using the services of American experts in software vulnerability research.
As expected, NSO Group did not hide its disappointment, the firm said:dismayed by this decision, given that our technologies aid US security and political interests in combating crime and terrorism". She “will call on the American authorities to reverse this decision”.
In France too, this affair is being closely followed. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett spoke with Emmanuel Macron on November 1. According to the AFP, “the two leaders agreed that this issue must continue to be handled in a discreet and professional manner, and with a view to transparency between the parties».
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