{"id":49612,"date":"2025-10-12T20:18:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T00:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=49612"},"modified":"2025-10-12T20:18:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T00:18:40","slug":"nso-group-acquired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/12\/nso-group-acquired\/","title":{"rendered":"NSO Group Acquired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/10\/10\/spyware-maker-nso-group-confirms-acquisition-by-us-investors\/\">Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=45555570\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/10\/10\/spyware-maker-nso-group-confirms-acquisition-by-us-investors\/\"><p>NSO spokesperson Oded Hershowitz told TechCrunch on Friday that &ldquo;an American investment group has invested tens of millions of dollars in the company and has acquired controlling ownership.&rdquo; <\/p><p>Confirmation of the deal came soon after Israeli tech news website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calcalistech.com\/ctechnews\/article\/s1jgvmitgx#google_vignette\">Calcalist reported<\/a> Friday that a group led by Hollywood producer Robert Simonds agreed to purchase the surveillance tech maker in a deal valued in the tens of millions of dollars.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>NSO has long claimed that its spyware is designed to not target U.S. phone numbers, likely to avoid hurting its chances to enter the U.S. market. But the company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2023\/03\/27\/spyware-diplomats-us-pegasus\/\">was caught in 2021<\/a> targeting about a dozen U.S. government officials abroad. <\/p><p>Soon after, <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/11\/03\/us-bans-trade-with-security-firm-nso-group-over-pegasus-spyware\/\">the U.S. Commerce Department banned<\/a> American companies from trading with NSO by putting the spyware maker on the U.S. Entities List.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/10\/evolution-of-apple-security-bounty-program\/\">Evolution of Apple Security Bounty Program<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/23\/whatsapp-v-nso-group\/\">WhatsApp v. NSO Group<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/18\/apple-drops-lawsuit-against-nso-group\/\">Apple Drops Lawsuit Against NSO Group<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (via Hacker News): NSO spokesperson Oded Hershowitz told TechCrunch on Friday that &ldquo;an American investment group has invested tens of millions of dollars in the company and has acquired controlling ownership.&rdquo; Confirmation of the deal came soon after Israeli tech news website Calcalist reported Friday that a group led by Hollywood producer Robert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-10-13T00:18:42Z","apple_news_api_id":"dacb6733-7bf9-4409-bde7-65a4d50325e3","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-10-13T00:18:42Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A2stnM3v5RAm952Wk1QMl4w","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[66,101,31,2657,48],"class_list":["post-49612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-acquisition","tag-business","tag-ios","tag-nso-group","tag-security"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49613,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49612\/revisions\/49613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}