Amazon, spyware company NSO Group from AWS-Hacking report to reporters

　Amazon has disabled a hacking tool development company NSO Group account on its own cloud service "Amazon Web Services (AWS)".It is reported that NSO Group used AWS as part of its own spyware system that multiple governments are using smartphones.This measure was reported by a human rights organization Amnesty International Forendic Investigation Team.In this report, NSO Group's software "Pegasus" was found on the smartphone of activists and journalists, and was installed via the AWS system.

　CITIZEN LAB's Forendic researchers, who analyze spyware at the University of Toronto, have also confirmed their own hacking tools in AWS's "CloudFront" product.According to Amnesty's report, Amazon reported by e -mail in May that NSO GROUP's activities were immediately eliminated from their systems.

　Prior to deleting the NSO Group account, the details of NSO Group activities were reported on a series of news sites.A list of 50,000 phone numbers was analyzed, and some of the Amnesty researchers analyzed smartphones directly and confirmed that 37 were hacked by NSO GROUP software.According to The Washington Post, two women who were close to the killed Saudi reporter Jamal Khashoggi are also included in the target, and includes multiple reporters and activists in countries such as India, Azerbaijans, and Rwanda, according to Amnesty.It was said that it was.

　NSO Group has doubted the reported survey, denying the hacking attack on KHASHOGGI -related people and the company's software.

This article edited by Asahi Interactive for an article from overseas RED VENTURES for Japan.