Five individuals and a company linked to spyware developer Intellexa are the latest to face sanctions as the United States ramps up efforts to eradicate spyware.
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The latest sanctions by the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) follow initial action taken in July 2023, when Intellexa itself was added to the list after being deemed a potential threat to national security.
Intellexa is on the naughty list for developing Predator spyware, similar to NSO Group's Pegasus – which arguably carries a bit more notoriety – but Intellexa also has all the features you definitely don't want running on any of your devices.
Phone calls, messages, GPS data, and microphone and camera access — among other things — are all believed to be compromised if the software, which can run silently on iOS and Android, worm its way onto a device.
