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Barcelona-based spyware startup Variston shuts down, per filing
Variston, a Barcelona-based spyware vendor, is reportedly being liquidated. Intelligence Online, a trade publication that covers the surveillance and
Intelligence Online, a trade publication that covers the surveillance and intelligence industry, reported that a legal notice published in Barcelona’s registry on February 10 confirmed that Variston has gone into liquidation. The company’s former employees told TechCrunch that Variston, founded in Barcelona in 2018 by spyware industry veterans Ralf Wegener and Ramanan Jayaraman, banned staff from disclosing where they work. One former employee told TechCrunch that Google’s exposure of Variston “might have been the beginning of the end” for the spyware maker.
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