‘Intellexa Leaks’ Reveal Wider Reach Of Predator Spyware – Antiwar.com

 ‘Intellexa Leaks’ Reveal Wider Reach Of Predator Spyware

“This investigation provides one of the clearest and most damning views yet into Intellexa’s internal operations and technology,” said Amnesty International Security Lab technologist Jurre van Bergen.

Highly invasive spyware from consortium led by a former senior Israeli intelligence official and sanctioned by the US government is still being used to target people in multiple countries, a joint investigation published Thursday revealed.

Inside Story in Greece , Haaretz in Israel , Swiss-based WAV Research Collective, and Amnesty International collaborated on the investigation into Intellexa Consortium, maker of Predator commercial spyware. The “Intellexa Leaks” show that clients in Pakistan – and likely also in other countries – are using Predator to spy on people, including a featured Pakistani human rights lawyer.

“This investigation provides one of the clearest and most damning views yet into Intellexa’s internal operations and technology ,” said Amnesty International Security Lab technologist Jurre van Bergen.

🚨Intellexa Leaks:”Among the most startling findings is evidence that—at the time of the leaked training videos—Intellexa retained the capability to remotely access Predator customer systems, even those physically located on the premises of its govt customers.“
https://securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2025/12/intellexa-leaks-predator-spyware-operations-exposed/

Predator works by sending malicious links to a targeted phone or other hardware. When the victim clicks the link, the spyware infects and provide access to the targeted device, including its encrypted instant messages on applications such as Signal and WhatsApp, as well as stored passwords, emails, contact lists, call logs, microphones, audio recordings, and more. The spyware then uploads gleaned data to a Predator back-end server.

The new investigation also revealed that in addition to the aforementioned “one-click” attacks, Intellexa has developed “zero-click” capabilities in which devices are infected via malicious advertising.

In March 2024, the US Treasury Department sanctioned two people and five entities associated with Intellexa for their alleged role “in developing, operating, and distributing commercial spyware technology used to target Americans, including US government officials, journalists, and policy experts.”

“The proliferation of commercial spyware poses distinct and growing security risks to the United States and has been misused by foreign actors to enable human rights abuses and the targeting of dissidents around the world for repression and reprisal,” the department said at the time.

Those sanctioned include Intellexa, its founder Tal Jonathan Dilian – a former chief commander of the Israel Defense Forces’ top-secret Technological Unit – his wife and business partner Sara Aleksandra Fayssal Hamou; and three companies within the Intellexa Consortium based in North Macedonia, Hungary, and Ireland.

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Related: 12/5 — Haaretz: [Predator, Developed By Israeli Spyware Firm Intellexa, Is One Of The Most Invasive Spywares On The Market. If Successfully Deployed And Installed On A Smartphone, There’s Not Much It Can’t Do
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