Middle East & Africa | Hacked off

A lawsuit from Apple piles pain on NSO Group

A controversial purveyor of hacking software is beleaguered

|JERUSALEM

ISRAEL’S CYBER-SECURITY industry is booming. In July the National Cyber Directorate, a government agency, said that startups in the field had raised $3.4bn across 50 separate deals. Seven had become “unicorns”, or privately held firms worth at least $1bn.

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