"These entities act as intermediaries, obscuring the connections between vendors, suppliers, and buyers. Oftentimes, intermediaries connect vendors to new regional markets."
"This creates an expanded and opaque spyware supply chain, which makes corporate structures, jurisdictional arbitrage, and ultimately accountability measures a challenge to disentangle," Sarah Graham, who coauthored the report, tells WIRED."
""Despite this, resellers and brokers are not a current feature of policy responses," she says."
Paragon accused Italian authorities of refusing a technical verification that could have resolved the issue. The global spyware market is growing and evolving, with dataset expansions adding four vendors, seven resellers or brokers, ten suppliers, and 55 individuals. Newly identified vendors include Israel's Bindecy and Italy's SIO. Resellers include front companies tied to NSO products, such as Panama's KBH and Mexico's Comercializadora de Soluciones Integrales Mecale. New suppliers include the UK's Coretech Security and UAE's ZeroZenX. Resellers and brokers act as intermediaries that obscure connections between vendors, suppliers, and buyers, often moving vendors into new regional markets and creating opaque supply chains that complicate corporate transparency, jurisdictional arbitrage, and accountability. Three new countries linked to spyware activity are Japan, Malaysia, and Panama.
Read at Ars Technica
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