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Microsoft didn’t attributed it to an Israeli firm, Citizen Lab did.

Another article on this also showed pricing reported by Citizen Lab, $1.8 per 10 devices if this is true this market will be exploding unless it will be heavily regulated..

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>Microsoft doesn’t name Candiru but instead refers to an “Israel-based private sector offensive actor” it calls Sourgum.

https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2021/07/15/cyberwe...

>We believe Sourgum is an Israel-based private sector offensive actor or PSOA.

> We believe Sourgum is an Israel-based private sector offensive actor or PSOA. Citizen Lab has identified the group as a company called Candiru. Sourgum generally sells cyberweapons that enable its customers, often government agencies around the world, to hack into their targets’ computers, phones, network infrastructure and internet-connected devices.

I just want to point out Candiru is a fish that supposedly wriggles up someone's ding-dong when they pee in Amazonian rivers while swimming? I'm... gravely... skeptical that it ever actually happens, if I were to guess it's one of those, "I fell on it while getting dressed" situations that are occasionally explained to amused ER doctors. Maybe even one of those, "they put a chemical in the pool that makes the water turn purple when you pee." Whatever the deal with Candiru is, at some point someone suggested naming their spyware after the urethra fish. They might be making the world a worse place, but you can't say they don't have a sense of humor about it.

Oh I don’t see humor in it at all. These guys picked the name of something that crawls up your urethra because that is how they saw themselves. These are Monsters, not people.

I agree. Sociopaths that know they are sociopaths, and flagrantly proud of it.

So how do you get them out of your system exactly? Amputation?

We've changed the title from "Israeli Firm’s Spyware Used Against Dissidents, Microsoft Says" as part of changing the URL from https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-15/israeli-f... to the report it points to.

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