The FBI is reportedly probing a notorious Israeli spyware company that was linked to the Jeff Bezos phone hack

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• The FBI Israel's NSO Group over the use of its software for hacks of US citizens and companies, according to Reuters.
• The Israeli spyware company has been linked to several high-profile hacks, most recently to an attack on the phone of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
• NSO has also been accused of supplying software used to surveil Jamal Khashoggi before his murder by Saudi Arabia in October 2018.
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The FBI is probing the use of spyware from the Israeli company NSO Group, which has been linked to hacks on Saudi dissidents and US companies, according to the Reuters news agency. 

The investigation began in 2017, when FBI officials wanted to work out whether NSO possessed code which could infect people's phones, according to a source who was interviewed by the FBI.

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