Amazon kicks NSO Group off its cloud service after spying reports

Photo caption: NSO Group says it monitors customers for abuses of its spyware. Getty Images. Article by Laura Hautala. CNET – July 19, 2021.

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. […]

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