Shalev Hulio
Shalev Hulio (* around 1979 in Haifa ) is an Israeli entrepreneur. He is co-founder and co-owner of the Israeli NSO Group Technologies , a company that is active in the cybersecurity sector and offers malware and other methods for cyber attacks on smartphones.
The NSO Group hit international headlines for the first time in 2016 because the Trojan software Pegasus it developed was used by totalitarian regimes to spy on opponents of the regime and human rights activists.
Life
Hulio was born in Haifa. His mother's parents came from Romania and were Holocaust survivors ; his father is a descendant of a Sephardic family.
Hulio attended Hugim High School in Haifa, where he met his current business partner, Omri Lavie. He did his military service in the Israeli army, but was not a member of Unit 8200 and received no IT training. During his time in the army he had various assignments in the West Bank , including a. in Operation Defensive Shield during the Second Intifada . He left the army with the rank of captain and then went to the USA. Because of the Second Lebanon War in 2006 he was ordered back to Israel as a reservist and did not return to the USA. After his assignment, he enrolled at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC) in Herzliya , where he studied law and politics.
The NSO Group
In 2009 Shalev Hulio founded the NSO Group, a cybersecurity company, together with Niv Carmi and Omri Lavie in Herzliya . The company name is made up of the first letters of the first names of the three company founders, with Carmi leaving the company soon after it was founded. According to media reports, the NSO is now a leader in the market for the development of malware and other methods of cyber attacks on smartphones. Researchers at Citizen Lab , an institute affiliated with the University of Toronto , have succeeded in detecting data traces (“DNS cache probing”) of the Pegasus malware in 45 countries.
In 2019, CBS broadcast a program under the title "Pegasus, All Bets Are On, Samuel L. Jackson" within the TV magazine 60 Minutes , in which the journalist Lesley Stahl Shalev Hulio u. a. interviewed about Pegasus, the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, and NSO Group's relationship with Saudi Arabia .
Web links
- Ynet News: Israeli Company NSO Defends it's Cyber-Spy Tool, Pegasus Jewish Business News, January 12, 2019
- Tomas Brewster: Everything We Know About NSO Group: The Professional Spies Who Hacked iPhones With A Single Text Forbes, August 25, 2016
- Lesley Stahl: CEO of Israeli spyware-maker NSO on fighting terror, Khashoggi murder, and Saudi Arabia Interview with Shalev Hulio, CBS News, March 24, 2019
- IMDb
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the NSO Group
- ↑ Yasmin Yablonko: NSO Founders buy high after selling low , Globes, February 14, 2019, accessed June 27, 2019
- ^ Technical Analysis of Pegasus Spyware. In: lookout.com, accessed August 29, 2019
- ↑ Keskey Stahl: CEO of Israeli spyware-maker NSO on fighting terror, Khashoggi murder, and Saudi Arabia Interview with Shalkev Hulio, CBS News, March 24, 2019
- ↑ a b c Ronen Bergman: Weaving a cybernet Interview with Shalev Hulio, accessed June 27, 2019
- ↑ NSO Group, CB Rank companie , accessed June 25, 2019
- ↑ Israeli firm linked to WhatsApp spyware attack faces lawsuit The Guardian, May 18, 2019, accessed June 27, 2019
- ↑ Sven Millischer: With Pegasus, iPhones become a bug trap Handelsblatt.ch, October 31, 2018, accessed on June 25, 2019
- ↑ Pegasus, All Bets Are On, Samuel L. Jackson. In: Our News , March 25, 2019, accessed June 25, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hulio, Shalev |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1979 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Haifa |