Ex-Employee Arrested After Trying to Sell Spyware

By Phil Muncaster for Infosecurity Magazine

A former employee at a notorious Israeli spyware maker has been arrested and charged after trying to sell his ex-company’s wares on the dark web, according to reports.

High-Tech Bridge CEO, Ilia Kolochenko added that no organization is safe from the risks posed by insider threats.

“Four-eyes principles, anomaly detection, role-based access to sensitive data and two-factor authentication, continuous monitoring and employee vetting can substantially reduce those risks, but not eliminate them,” he added.

“Worse, being extremely busy with external security threats, many organizations blindly trust their internal employees and tend to ignore automated security alerts coming from the inside. In many cases, conscientious employees are tricked in a sophisticated manner by cyber-criminals to unwittingly help them get inside of corporate networks.”

NSO Group sprang to notoriety in 2016 when one of its tools, a spyware product known as Pegasus, was used in a sophisticated campaign against internationally renowned campaigner Ahmed Mansoor, which some have traced back to the UAE government. Read Full Article