Amazon kicks NSO Group off its cloud service after spying reports
1 min readPhoto caption: NSO Group says it monitors customers for abuses of its spyware. Getty Images. Article by Laura Hautala. CNET –
The maker of the Pegasus hacking tool reportedly used AWS as part of its spyware services to government clients.
Amazon has deactivated cloud computing accounts that belonged to NSO Group, a hacking tools company that reportedly used Amazon Web Services as part of spyware systems in turn used by governments to surveil phones. The removal came as a result of research by forensic investigators at Amnesty International, who discovered the Israeli company’s Pegasus software on the phones of activists and journalists, at times using AWS systems to operate. […]