Quadream was an Israeli surveillance technology company.[1][2] It prominently sold iPhone hacking tools,[2] and was founded in 2014 by a group including two former NSO Group employees, Guy Geva, and Nimrod Reznik.[3] Its offices were in Ramat Gan.[3] The company is suspected to have shut down in April 2023.[4] It is owned by a parent company in Cyprus.[2]
Quadream is believed to have developed "zero-click" exploit tools similar to those used by NSO Group.[5] Its customers include the government of Saudi Arabia.[2][6] In at least 10 countries and continents North America and Europe, governments used tools developed by Quadream against journalists and opposition.[4]
See also
- Pegasus (spyware), developed by NSO Group
References
- NSO rival Quadream in talks with Moroccan gov't Globes, 2021-10-08, retrieved 2022-02-03^
- Secretive Israeli Cyber Firm Selling Spy-tech to Saudi Arabia Haaretz, retrieved 2022-02-03^
- How Democracies Spy on Their Citizens; By Ronan Farrow, April 18, 2022, The New Yorker^
- Israeli spyware company QuaDream expected to close down - report Jerusalem Post, April 17, 2023^
- Christopher Bing. EXCLUSIVE iPhone flaw exploited by second Israeli spy firm-sources Reuters, 2022-02-03, retrieved 2022-02-03^
- Mustafa Abu Sneineh. Saudi Arabia deploys new Israeli spyware to hack activists' phones: Report Middle East Eye, retrieved 2022-02-03^