Security News > 2021 > November > US Blacklists NSO Group
2021-11-04 11:52
The Israeli cyberweapons arms manufacturer - and human rights violator, and probably war criminal - NSO Group has been added to the US Department of Commerce's trade blacklist.
Aside from the obvious difficulties this causes, it'll make it harder for them to buy zero-day vulnerabilities on the open market.
This is another step in the ongoing US actions against the company.
News URL
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/11/us-blacklists-nso-group.html
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