Security News > 2023 > April > Israeli Spyware Vendor QuaDream to Shut Down Following Citizen Lab and Microsoft Expose

Israeli spyware vendor QuaDream is allegedly shutting down its operations in the coming days, less than a week after its hacking toolset was exposed by Citizen Lab and Microsoft.

The company's board of directors are looking to sell off its intellectual property, the report further added.

News of the purported shutdown comes as the firm's spyware framework - dubbed REIGN - was outed as having been used against journalists, political opposition figures, and NGO workers across North America, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

Microsoft described REIGN as a "Suite of exploits, malware, and infrastructure designed to exfiltrate data from mobile devices."

Apple told The Hacker News last week that there was no indication to suggest that the exploit, codenamed ENDOFDAYS, has been put to use since the company released iOS 14.4.2 in March 2021.

While the company has largely managed to stay under the shadows, Haaretz reported in June 2021 that its spyware technology was sold to Saudi Arabia to carry out zero-click attacks against targets of interest.

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