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Amazon kicks NSO Group activity off its cloud service after spying reports
Amazon has deactivated cloud computing accounts associated with NSO Group, a hacking tools company that reportedly used Amazon Web Services as part of spyware systems in turn used by governments to surveil phones. The removal came as a result of research by forensic investigators at Amnesty International, who discovered the Israeli company's Pegasus software on the phones of activists and journalists, at times using AWS systems to operate. Forensic researchers at Citizen Lab, which analyzes spyware at the University of Toronto, independently confirmed Amnesty's discovery that the hacking tools were operating on AWS' ... (full story)