Omer Benjakob
Haaretz.com
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Israeli Firm Suspected of Illegally Selling Classified Spy Tech
Haaretz reveals NFV Systems’ surveillance tools; firm under investigation by secretive defense body for skirting arms export controls, in case that may ‘damage national security’ → Read More
Israeli Firm Suspected of Illegally Selling Classified Spy Tech
Haaretz reveals NFV Systems’ surveillance tools; firm under investigation by secretive Israeli body for skirting arms export controls, in case that may ‘damage national security’ → Read More
Israeli Firm Suspected of Illegally Selling Classified Spy Tech
Haaretz reveals NFV Systems’ surveillance tools; firm under investigation by secretive defense body for skirting arms export controls, in case that may ‘damage national security’ → Read More
Thousands of Fake Avatars Linked to Disinfo Ops Taken Down – and That’s a Problem
It took Twitter two weeks to remove over 1,800 fake accounts used for online manipulation for political and private clients. Facebook moved faster, but also removed real people. Is the threat gone? We’ll never know → Read More
Fake Friends: Leak Reveals Israeli Firms Turning Social Media Into Spy Tech
Avatars are not used just to push out disinformation. A massive leak of 500,000 documents reveals how fake online accounts are also used to spy on journalists and activists → Read More
Fake Friends: Leak Reveals Israeli Firms Turning Social Media Into Spy Tech
Avatars are not used just to push out disinformation. A massive leak of 500,000 documents reveals how fake online accounts are also used to spy on journalists and activists → Read More
Why an Israeli Black Ops Team Had to Kill Emmanuel the Emu
To show off the power of its avatar army, a shadowy Israeli firm sentenced an avian internet sensation to death – and revealed to undercover reporters the extent of its clandestine business → Read More
Antisemitic Influencers, Fake Journalists: Inside an Israeli Factory for Online Deception
For Israeli-owned Percepto International, slandering the International Red Cross and recruiting an antisemitic internet influencer are legitimate tactics ■ The company has run a fake investigative journalism site, rigged the reputation of a Netanyahu ally and meddled with elections in Burkina Faso → Read More
Hacking, Extortion, Election Interference: These Are the Tools Used by Israel's Agents of Chaos and Manipulation
Revealed: The cyberweapons a key Israeli company offers its clients in order to corrupt democracies across the globe → Read More
This ‘Dystopian’ Cyber Firm Could Have Saved Mossad Assassins From Exposure
Meet Toka, the Israeli cyber firm founded by Ehud Barak, that lets clients hack cameras and change their feeds – just like in Hollywood heist movies → Read More
This ‘Dystopian’ Cyber Firm Could Have Saved Mossad Assassins From Exposure
This ‘Dystopian’ Cyber Firm Could Have Saved Mossad Assassins From Exposure Meet Toka, the Israeli cyber firm founded by Ehud Barak, that lets clients hack cameras and change their feeds – just like in Hollywood heist movies → Read More
This ‘Dystopian’ Cyber Firm Could Have Saved Mossad Assassins From Exposure
Meet Toka, the Israeli cyber firm founded by Ehud Barak, that lets clients hack cameras and change their feeds – just like in Hollywood heist movies → Read More
Revealed: The Israeli Firm Selling ‘Dystopian’ Hacking Capabilities
Revealed: The Israeli Firm Selling ‘Dystopian’ Hacking Capabilities Meet Toka, the Israeli cyber firm founded by Ehud Barak, that lets clients hack cameras and change their feeds – just like in Hollywood heist movies → Read More
Revealed: The Israeli Firm Selling ‘Dystopian’ Hacking Capabilities
Meet Toka, the Israeli cyber firm founded by Ehud Barak, that lets clients hack cameras and change their feeds – just like in Hollywood heist movies → Read More
IDF Soldiers Behind Twitter Accounts Harassing Journalists, Left-wing Activists
The operators of the two fake Twitter accounts have incriminated themselves on multiple occasions as being linked to a military company that is deployed in the Southern Hebron Hills area in the West Bank, Haaretz and FakeReporter found → Read More
Flight of the Predator: Jet Linked to Israeli Spyware Tycoon Brings Surveillance Tech From EU to Notorious Sudanese Militia
A cross-continental investigation uncovered a network of firms connected to Tal Dilian, ex-commander of a top secret Israeli intel unit, who has bought up an array of sophisticated surveillance technology and established an EU foothold in Greece and Cyprus → Read More
The Israelis Destabilizing Democracy and Disrupting Elections Worldwide
No morals, no qualms, no borders: From an office building in Israel, experts in technological manipulation are attacking democracies, media and elections across the world → Read More
Israel’s Digital Campaign Trail: Who Spent a Fortune Down South and Who Blew Their Money
The Labor Party gave up Haifa, while Meretz and Yesh Atid fought over Tel Aviv – and Likud placed its entire focus on Netanyahu. Here’s how the parties spent their cash on paid advertising on Facebook and Google in the Nov. 1 Knesset election → Read More
Israel's Digital Campaign Trail: Who Spent a Fortune Down South and Who Blew Their Money
The Labor Party gave up Haifa, while Meretz and Yesh Atid fought over Tel Aviv – and Likud placed its entire focus on Netanyahu. Here's how the parties spent their cash on paid advertising on Facebook and Google in the Nov. 1 Knesset election → Read More
Revealed: Israelis' Sexual Preferences and Personal Info on Sale on Telegram's Black Market
On Telegram's dark, underground channels, right next to the home-weed-delivery services, massive databases - containing sensitive personal information on millions of Israelis - are easily bought and sold → Read More