Israel’s Candiru sold states spyware to hack journalists and dissidents

Also here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27855943

180 points, 25 comments.

> 180 points, 25 comments.

And got dropped off the front-page real quick despite of those points. It would have had a lot more points and comments without the people seeking to prevent discussion of it via flags.

It's genius really, have it posted once, sweep it under the rug, then pretend it was freely discussed before and that this is a dupe. Move along, nothing to see and all that.

Israel's malware industry is nothing new. Besides selling hacking tools to totalitarian regimes (another notorious example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSO_Group), they also peddle malware direct to the victims: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Download_Valley

paywall bypass : https://archive.is/3VhQB

When I read something like this all I see is an ad.