Microsoft, Google next to Favebook for NSO hackers

Μεγάλες εταιρείες του διαδικτύου, όπως οι , Google, Cisco και VMWare, υπέγραψαν σήμερα ένα πρακτικό για την υποστήριξη της αγωγής του against the NSO Group, an Israeli company that makes and sells hacking tools to foreign governments.

Εκτός από τις τέσσερις εταιρείες που αναφέραμε παραπάνω, το πρακτικό υποστήριξης υπογράφηκε επίσης και από τις θυγατρικές της GitHub και , but also from Association, an industry lobby group that represents dozens of other tech companies, including Amazon, Twitter, Reddit, Discord, PayPal, eBay, Uber, and many others.

The report was filed along with the lawsuit filed by Facebook against the NSO Group in October 2019.

At the time, Facebook reported that NSO had developed an exploit for the WhatsApp mobile app that it sold to government hackers.

A later investigation found that the exploit was used to install malware on the phones of more than 1.400 WhatsApp users, lawyers, journalists, human rights activists, political dissidents, diplomats and other senior foreign officials.

Facebook has claimed that the NSO Group committed a crime. In the months following the lawsuit, the NSO Group said it was simply providing software to government officials.

With today's brief description of the minutes, the signatories want to show the judges that they support the position of FAcebook.

In a publication released by Microsoft today, explains its decision to sign the Minutes of Support [PDF], αναφέροντας ότι εταιρείες όπως η NSO, οι οποίες συχνά αναφέρονται και ως μισθοφόροι στον κυβερνοχώρο ή PSOA (-sector offensive actors), currently operate in a legal gray area, without rules.

Tom Burt, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Security & Trust, says the NSO Group is trying to set a dangerous legal precedent with the Facebook case "by trying to cover the legal immunity afforded to its government clients, which will protect company when developing its tools harm innocent people and businesses. "

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