The US Commerce Department has added four foreign companies from Israel, Russia, and Singapore to its Entity List for “engaging in activities that are contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States.”
These companies include Israeli firms NSO Group and Cendiru, both listed based on evidence that they developed and supplied spyware to foreign governments, which later used the tools to target government officials, journalists, businesspeople, activists, academics, and embassy workers, officials wrote in a release.
