As well as becoming something of a bête noire of privacy and human rights activists, Israel’s NSO Group has established itself as one of the biggest smartphone surveillance companies in the world in recent years, with high-tech malware aimed at Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android devices. But in the midst of reported $1 billion merger discussions with another of Israel’s spytech giants, Verint, NSO now claims it has become the victim of an online attack, carried out by one of its own.

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