U.S. agencies considered buying 'Phantom,' a previously unknown spyware system from NSO Group, even after ongoing allegations of misconduct emerged.
had been providing the company with private legal counsel on matters of cybersecurity and national security.
The notion that the FBI was trying to purchase a commercial malware that could reputedly compromise any American’s phone is clearly something to be horrified by.
What Facebook didn’t appear to know was that the attack on a U.S. phone number, far from being an assault by a foreign power, was part of the NSO demonstrations to the F.B.I. of Phantom — the system NSO designed for American law-enforcement agencies to turn the nation’s smartphones into an “intelligence gold mine.”In other words, Facebook’s lawsuit against NSO had stumbled upon the spyware company’s attempts to impress the FBI.
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