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Ronen Bergman

@ronenbergman
12 posts
2023-04-18
NEW: It was in the dark Mexico City cabaret in 2011, among women dancing onstage and tequila shots, that the most powerful cyberweapon in existence got its start. Pegasus- The Prequel (and sequel), @nytimes investigative report with the great @Nataliekitro https://www.nytimes.com/...
2023-04-18 View on X
New York Times

An investigation details how Mexico became Pegasus' first client, grew to be its most prolific user, and continues to use the spyware despite promising to stop

A Times investigation reveals the story behind how Mexico became the first and most prolific user of Pegasus. Tweets: @el_reportero , @llchristyll , @lkatzenberg , @diazbriseno , @...

2022-12-08
New: The USG has secretly deployed Israeli-made powerful hacking tools that invade mobile phones and vacuum up data. This was uncovered as part of a New York Times investigation into the booming global spyware market W\ @MarkMazzettiNYT @MatinaStevis https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-12-08 View on X
New York Times

An investigation shows how, despite US sanctions on the NSO Group, government spyware use is booming, including the DEA's secret deployment of Graphite spyware

which employ former Israeli cyberintelligence veterans. After questions from The New York Times, the Greek government admitted that it gave one of them, Ronen Bergman / @ronenbergm...

Congress and the White House warned about risks to the United States posed by foreign commercial spyware but, as The Times reveals- there are exceptions.The White House is allowing the D.E.A. to continue its use of Graphite, the hacking tool made by Israel-based Paragon, for its
2022-12-08 View on X
New York Times

An investigation shows how, despite US sanctions on the NSO Group, government spyware use is booming, including the DEA's secret deployment of Graphite spyware

which employ former Israeli cyberintelligence veterans. After questions from The New York Times, the Greek government admitted that it gave one of them, Ronen Bergman / @ronenbergm...

operations against drug cartels. The use of spyware continues to proliferate around the world, with new firms — which employ former Israeli cyberintelligence veterans. After questions from The New York Times, the Greek government admitted that it gave one of them,
2022-12-08 View on X
New York Times

An investigation shows how, despite US sanctions on the NSO Group, government spyware use is booming, including the DEA's secret deployment of Graphite spyware

which employ former Israeli cyberintelligence veterans. After questions from The New York Times, the Greek government admitted that it gave one of them, Ronen Bergman / @ronenbergm...

2022-07-11
A team of executives from an American military contractor quietly visited Israel numerous times in recent months to try to carry out a bold but risky purchase. They told the Israelis that U.S. intelligence supported the acquisition. W\@MarkMazzettiNYT https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-07-11 View on X
New York Times

Sources: defense contractor L3Harris scuttled plans to buy NSO Group despite alleged US intel officials' support, after the Biden admin's outrage over the talks

The American contractor L3 Harris is said to have cited support from intelligence officials for its effort to acquire NSO …

2022-01-29
EXCLUSIVE: The CIA bought a Pegasus, the world's most powerful and notorious cyberweapon, for the intelligence service of Djibouti, a country with a horrible record of human rights abuses. W\ the great @MarkMazzettiNYT via @NYTmag https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-01-29 View on X
New York Times

An investigation into the rise of NSO's Pegasus shows its widespread use by the CIA, UAE, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and others; the FBI bought but didn't use it

Firstly, welcome to my new blog!  (Or is it a “newsletter”?) Tweets: Eva / @evacide : Here I am, having taken to my fainting couch, wearing my finest clutching pearls, because NSO ...

2022-01-28
EXCLUSIVE: The CIA bought a Pegasus, the world's most powerful and notorious cyberweapon, for the intelligence service of Djibouti, a country with a horrible record of human rights abuses. W\ the great @MarkMazzettiNYT via @NYTmag https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-01-28 View on X
New York Times

An investigation into the rise of NSO's Pegasus shows its widespread use by the CIA, UAE, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and others; the FBI bought but didn't use it

A Times investigation reveals how Israel reaped diplomatic gains around the world from NSO's Pegasus spyware — a tool America itself purchased but is now trying to ban.

2020-06-10
Exposed: a sprawling hacking-for-hire operation that for years targeted the emails of government officials, journalists, banks and environmental activists, some of them involved in the climate-change campaign against Exxon Mobil https://www.nytimes.com/... W/@nicole_hong, @barrymeier
2020-06-10 View on X
Reuters

An obscure Indian firm provided hacking services to help spy on 10K+ email accounts over seven years, in one of the largest spy-for-hire operations ever exposed

New report from @citizenlab uncovering Dark Basin, a hack-for-hire group that has targeted thousands of individuals on six continents. Targets include advocacy groups and journalis...

2020-05-07
NEW- cyber group affiliated with Chinese intelligence,is using a new never-seen-before powerful hacking weapon, in a series of attacks on embassies,government offices and state owned technology and science companies in Asia and Australia W\ @stevenleemyers https://www.nytimes.com/...
2020-05-07 View on X
New York Times

Israeli security company says hackers linked to the Chinese military have used Aria-body, a cyberattack tool, on governments and firms in Australia and SE Asia

An Israeli security company said the hacking software, called Aria-body, had been deployed against governments and state-owned companies in Australia and Southeast Asia.

2020-03-17
PM Netanyahu authorized Israel intelligence agency to tap into a vast and trove of cellphone data to retrace the movements of people who have contracted the coronavirus and identify others who should be quarantined W\@halbfinger @IKershner https://www.nytimes.com/...
2020-03-17 View on X
New York Times

Sources: Israel's Netanyahu has authorized the use of a previously undisclosed trove of cellphone data to fight coronavirus; the move still requires approval

Social distancing is here to stay … Yaacov Benmeleh / Bloomberg : Israel Approves 30-Day Tech Tracking of Coronavirus Carriers Tweets: Patrick Howell O'Neill / @howelloneill : Isra...

2020-03-16
PM Netanyahu authorized Israel intelligence agency to tap into a vast and trove of cellphone data to retrace the movements of people who have contracted the coronavirus and identify others who should be quarantined W\@halbfinger @IKershner https://www.nytimes.com/...
2020-03-16 View on X
New York Times

Sources: Israel's Netanyahu has authorized the use of a previously undisclosed trove of cellphone data to fight coronavirus; the move still requires approval

The information, intended for use in counterterrorism, would help identify people who have crossed paths with known patients. Tweets: @howelloneill , @haaretzcom , @moorehn , @rone...

2019-12-23
NEW: the popular messaging App ToTok, one of the most-downloaded in Apple and Google app stores during the last months, is in fact, a sophisticated hacking tool used by the government of the UAE . W\ @MarkMazzettiNYT @nicoleperlroth https://www.nytimes.com/...
2019-12-23 View on X
New York Times

US officials say ToTok, a chat app gaining popularity around the world, is a spying tool by the government of UAE; Google and Apple have now removed the app

ToTok, an Emirati messaging app that has been downloaded to millions of phones, is the latest escalation of a digital arms race.