NSO has a new competitor, one cofounded by the former commander of Israel’s NSA equivalent, Unit 8200. It’s promising to only sell to democratic regimes.
Paragon, an Israeli spyware company seed funded with American money, is promising it can break into data on encrypted apps, sources say. Paragon Solutions doesn’t have a website. There’s very little information at all about them online, even if the Tel Aviv-based smartphone surveillance startup’s employees are all over LinkedIn, more than 50 of them. That’s not a bad headcount for a company that’s still in stealth mode.
The startup, founded in 2019, is quietly building up steam at a time when its ilk in the smartphone hackers-for-hire industry are under heavy fire. The Pegasus Project, a coalition of nonprofits and global publications, this month claimed to have uncloaked worldwide surveillance of journalists, lawyers and high-profile elected politicians by clients of Israel’s best known spyware provider NSO Group.
The company’s staff, according to LinkedIn profiles, have strong backgrounds in surveillance, with its VP of operations and HR lead being ex-NSO, and many of its developers coming from Israel Defense Forces intelligence units. One of its software developers, Alon Weinberg, previously presented research onWith an American backer, it appears Paragon is going to try and crack American law enforcement agencies where others like NSO have failed.
John Scott-Railton, senior researcher at Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Monk School, said that if the aim of Paragon’s business is to help American agencies target Americans, then it needs to be scrutinized. “Any American investor that is putting money into the industry right now, urgently needs serious scrutiny. We are going to need to know who their customers are.
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