The Washington Post and The Guardian, members of the Pegasus Project investigative consortium, reported on Tuesday on the Israeli firm’s latest troubles with the US government.
“Surveillance companies try to access cellular communication networks to geolocate targets and provide other spying services.
Miller, interviewed by Guardian, Washington Post and Paris-based journalism watchdog Forbidden Stories, stated that two of NSO’s co-founders, Shalev Hulio and Omri Lavie, had attended the web voice call with Mobileum.
A few later in 2017, Miller submitted an anonymous ‘tip’ to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in which he reported details of the conversation with NSO.
In a statement, NSO said that it had “never done any business with this company ”.
However if those words were used they will have been entirely in jest.” Hulio did not respond to a questionnaire.
Another participant of the 2017 conference call, Eran Gorev, then operating partner for Francisco Partners, an investment firm that had a controlling interest in the NSO Group, also failed to recall the contents or the encounter.
“Mobileum takes the data privacy of its customers information very seriously and has implemented a robust cybersecurity program to prevent any breaches.
After leaving Mobileum, Miller is working as a mobile security researcher with the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab.