Israeli spyware maker NSO Group has confirmed to TechCrunch that a U.S. investment group has acquired the company.
NSO spokesperson Oded Hershowitz told TechCrunch on Friday that “an American investment group has invested tens of millions of dollars in the company and has acquired controlling ownership.”
This is not going to end well for Americans, or anyone really. Democracy doesn’t die in darkness, but by a thousand cuts.
Private equity firms have repeatedly acquired the NSO Group over the past 10 years. Clearly, they’re trying to monopolize the current climate in the US which is more friendly towards targeted spyware.