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Again and again, NSO Group’s customers keep getting their spyware operations caught
Despite the stealthy nature of spyware, security researchers keep detecting Pegasus spyware attacks in part because of sloppy 'operational security.'
“NSO has a basic problem: they are not as good at hiding as their customers think,” John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at The Citizen Lab, a human rights organization that has investigated spyware abuses since 2012, told TechCrunch. But there have also been dozens of victims identified by Amnesty, Citizen Lab, and Access Now, another nonprofit that helps protect civil society from spyware attacks, which did not rely on that leaked list of phone numbers. “The OPSEC mistake that NSO Group is making here is continuing to sell to countries that are going to keep targeting journalists and end up exposing themselves,” Ó Cearbhaill, using the technical term for operational security.
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