NSO Mulls Raps vs Israeli Paper For Story On Its Spyware

NSO Group sent a warning letter on Thursday to the Israeli financial daily Calcalist over the daily's latest report into the use of the company's Pegasus spyware, Josh Breiner reported for Haaretz.

Photo Insert: Calcalist founder and publisher Yoel Esteron

On Thursday, the publication reported that NSO covers its tracks and blocks documentation of actions taken with the spyware.

By doing so, the report said, it's impossible to thoroughly investigate the use of the program and its list of targets. Pegasus spyware allows its operators to remotely access mobile phones infected with the software.

In a letter from lawyers Moshe Mazor and Roy Blecher, who are representing NSO, the company denied that it allows its customers to erase the data they collected with its spyware and said the reports do not include "any evidence to support the presented sensational claims."

NSO, which has previously chosen not to respond to the reports about it, wrote in its letter to Calcalist that every version of its spyware system "includes full documentation of all the actions carried out with it," and that the data logs were designed from the outset to save documents for legal purposes and to block the possibility of tampering with evidence.

It also denied that it offered customers versions of the system that do not record its actions or offer "weak" documentation.

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