NSO To Be Acquired By US Investors, Ending Israeli Control of Pegasus Maker (calcalistech.com)
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- News link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/10/10/1725247/nso-to-be-acquired-by-us-investors-ending-israeli-control-of-pegasus-maker
- Source link: https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/s1jgvmitgx
> Control of NSO Group is set to leave Israeli hands. A group of American investors led by Hollywood producer Robert Simonds has [1]agreed to acquire the controversial spyware developer in a deal valued at several tens of millions of dollars. The transaction is expected to be signed in the coming days, though its completion will require approval from Israel's Defense Export Control Agency (DECA) at the Ministry of Defense.
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> Since March 2023, NSO's shares have been held by a Luxembourg-based holding company wholly owned by founder Omri Lavie. The company's lender syndicate, which had extended roughly $500 million in loans to finance a share buyback from the private equity fund Francisco Partners, transferred ownership to Lavie following the restructuring.
[1] https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/s1jgvmitgx
Hmmm (Score:2)
U.S. ownership doesn't make it less dangerous spyware.
Very useful for Trump... (Score:2, Troll)
Now he will be able to spy on oponnents more easily...
And this all for a small price of accepting Gaza destruction...
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> Now he will be able to spy on oponnents more easily...
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> And this all for a small price of accepting Gaza destruction...
Correction. A small price for accepting genocide.
What the hell? (Score:1)
This is exactly like a group of private investors acquiring a missile cruiser. In Russia I would believe it more easily.
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Read TFS. It was already owned by private capital (a Luxembourg company).
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A Hollywood producer buying an Israeli cyber-arms firm from a Luxembourg shell to sell zero-click exploits once blacklisted by Washington.You can almost hear the hum of obsolete servers in some rain-slick basement and the glow of a corporate logo reflected off a wet street. All we're missing is a burned-out hacker mumbling about "market forces" while patching code for a warlord's private AI and a former Ukrainian drone soldier hired out for his expertise. The strangest part is how banal it all feels. The cy
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I'd buy this game if reasonably priced :-)
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V won't have any problems infiltrating that basement.
\o/ (Score:1)
So, sanctions are coming? Extract everything of value before it's too late?
To Be... (Score:2)
"will require approval from Israel's Defense Export Control Agency (DECA) at the Ministry of Defense." ..Or NOT TO BE.
I don't see how this gets approved. (Score:2)
Once it's under US ownership, now lawsuits can't just be ignored (in theory).
Yeah (Score:1)
So out of the frying pan into the fire.