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U.S. Treasury issued fresh sanctions against entities linked to the Intellexa Consortium

Posted on September 18, 2024 by Dissent

Pierluigi Paganini reports:

The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued new sanctions against five individuals and one entity associated with the Intellexa Consortium for their role in developing, operating, and distributing commercial spyware.

The Intellexa Consortium was created in 2019, it has acted as a marketing umbrella for various offensive cyber companies that provide commercial spyware and surveillance tools designed for targeted and mass surveillance campaigns. The name “Predator” spyware was used to refer to a collection of surveillance tools that allows to compromise victims’ devices through zero-click attacks.

Read more at SecurityAffairs.

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