DECRYPTION – Driven into bankruptcy, the Israeli spyware publisher is seeking to sell its assets to American funds.
NSO Group will not survive the Pegasus scandal as it stands. This case of espionage via cell phones, whose long list of victims around the world is growing every week, has cost the Israeli surveillance software publisher dearly. While at the beginning of 2021 NSO Group was planning to go public for a valuation of 2 billion dollars, the revelations made in the summer swept away all its ambitions.
The reaction of the United States was commensurate with the international turmoil caused by the “Pegasus affair”. Considered a “threat to American national security”, NSO Group was placed in November on a “blacklist” by the Department of Commerce. The company no longer has the right to sell its products to US entities, or purchase equipment, services or intellectual property from a US-based company.
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