Israel provide offensive cyber capability which is indifferent from its geopolitical alignment
Israel became a hub for selling surveillance technology around the world despite its geopolitical tensions with the countries. Its Cyber warfare company “NSO Group” states that they are developing products for the sake of people but in reality are involved in spying human rights activists.
Recently, Israeli made spying tools were bought for Bangladesh intelligence service, despite the South Asian country not recognizing Israel. Since, there is no diplomatic relations between Israel and Asian countries. Yet business between the two countries has been carried out under a cloak of secrecy.
Mostly, Arab states are denying any official or covert ties with Israel, but were unable to keep the lid on their dealings with Tel Aviv for too long. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself has gone on record revealing that his country maintains unofficial ties with a broad range of Arab states.
Israel’s NSO Group produces and sells a mobile phone spyware suite called Pegasus. The GCC countries are well known for abusing surveillance tools to track dissident. Saudi Arabia used this software for Jamal Khashoggi and UAE used it for activist Ahmed Mansoor.
Qatar did not share good relations with Israel geopolitically and was also against with normalization between UAE and Israel. But it was a possibility that Israel is serving Qatar covertly for spying tools.
The Citizen lab researchers discovered that Israeli NSO Group targeted Mexican journalist Rafael Cabrera. and looking at the domains registered by NSO, they determined Pegasus could have been used across Turkey, Israel, Thailand, Qatar, Kenya, Uzbekistan, Mozambique, Morocco, Yemen, Hungary, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, and Bahrain.
Israeli’s hacking software is getting much recognition from all over the world.Israel tops in the world for providing both offensive and defensive cyber warfare tools.
US and China have unresolved concerns between them and do not share good relations but Isreal providing both of them surveillance technology.Recently, US introduce a bill that would provide $30m over five years for the creation of joint cybersecurity partnership programmes between Washington and Israel.
Israel is taking advantage of their cyber surveillance skills and getting lot of monetary benefits out of it.
