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Spyware maker Paragon terminates contract with Italian government: Media reports
Following allegations of potential abuse, Paragon Solutions has cut off Italy from its spyware systems.
Paragon Solutions, a startup that sells access to surveillance technologies including phone spyware, has cut ties with the Italian government, according to reports in The Guardian and Haaretz. On Thursday, citing an anonymous source, The Guardian reported Paragon had first suspended its contract with Italy on Friday after WhatsApp said it had disrupted a hacking campaign leveraging the Israeli startup’s spyware targeting around 90 people. “I don’t talk about our customers and activity,” Paragon’s CEO and co-founder Idan Nurick told TechCrunch, declining to provide comment about the Italian cases as well as WhatsApp’s allegations.
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