Snoop Group: Product of Israeli cyber intelligence firm NSO
Israeli cyber intelligence firm NSO Group has created a mobile spy kit called Pegasus, which allegedly helps governments and authoritarian regimes across the world snoop on citizens. NSO, however, says that it is a supplier of surveillance tools to governments and law enforcers, and its products tackle and prevent serious crimes and support search and rescue operations after natural disasters. ET report.
When did NSO Group come into being? Who owns it?
NSO Group was started in 2010 by three friends – Shalev Hulio, Omri Lavie and Niv Carmi in Israel as a cyber intelligence firm. It subsequently opened a marketing and sales arm in the United States. In 2014, Francisco Partners Management, a San Francisco-based private equity firm, acquired controlling stake in the NSO Group for $120 million.