Commerce Department Adds Surveillance Firms Cytrox, Intellexa to Export Prohibition List
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The US Commerce Department added two new foreign technology companies, Intellexa, with corporate holdings in Greece and Ireland, and Cytrox, with holdings in Hungary and North Macedonia, to its export prohibition list, accusing the firms of selling cyber intrusion tools that pose a global threat to digital privacy and security.
Adding the two companies to the Commerce Department’s entity list generally bars US firms from engaging in trade activity with them.
Cybersecurity researchers at Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto have previously linked Cytrox to surveillance software called Predator, which was able to infect iPhones via single-click links sent over WhatsApp.
Citizen Lab also concluded Cytrox was part of the “Intellexa alliance,” an umbrella term for a set of spyware vendors tha…
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