We are going to need to know who their customers are. “Any American investor that is putting money into the industry right now, urgently needs serious scrutiny. John Scott-Railton, senior researcher at Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk School, said that if the aim of Paragon’s business is to help American agencies target Americans, then it needs to be scrutinized. The company hadn’t commented on its investment in the Israeli smartphone surveillance game at the time of publication. Battery, which has raised more than $9 billion since its founding in 1983, has claimed some hugely successful investments in its time, including Coinbase, Groupon, Splunk, SkullCandy and Pokémon Go creator Niantic. There’s no indication that they have clients across the Atlantic yet, however.Īccording to the corporate filing for the company, Battery invested via two of its venture capital vehicles in September 2019, indicating it helped launch the business, while its Israel-based vice president Aaron Rinberg is a board observer at Paragon. According to a LinkedIn profile, a 30-year veteran of Israeli intelligence, Menachem Pakman, has been employed to help find business in the U.S. With an American backer, it appears Paragon is going to try and crack American law enforcement agencies where others like NSO have failed. One of its software developers, Alon Weinberg, previously presented research on hacking the software running on Intel and AMD chips at famous U.S. The company’s staff, according to LinkedIn profiles, have strong backgrounds in surveillance, with its VP of operations and HR lead being ex-NSO, and many of its developers coming from Israel Defense Forces intelligence units. One of the sources said they understood that Paragon’s spyware exploits the protocols of end-to-end encrypted apps, meaning it would hack into messages via vulnerabilities in the core ways in which the software operates. Two industry sources said they believed Paragon was trying to set itself apart further by promising to get access to the instant messaging applications on a device, rather than taking complete control of everything on a phone. In short, it adds another significant element to the cybersecurity threat landscape.” First, it adds even more capability to the leading nation-state attackers, and second, it generates cyberattack proliferation to other governments that have the money but not the people to create their own weapons. Even before the Pegasus Project, Microsoft president Brad Smith warned the $12 billion industry as a whole represented a threat, writing: “An industry segment that aids offensive cyberattacks spells bad news on two fronts. The French government has already begun its investigation, but other administrations around the world are now being called on to probe just who was hacked by NSO’s spyware and why. The company’s CEO has rebuffed the claims made by the Project’s partners, saying it had no evidence that its tools were used to target those named in reports, from the wife of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi to French president Emmanuel Macron. The Pegasus Project, a coalition of nonprofits and global publications, this month claimed to have uncloaked worldwide surveillance of journalists, lawyers and high-profile elected politicians by clients of Israel’s best known spyware provider NSO Group. Hope this helps clarify the situation.The startup, founded in 2019, is quietly building up steam at a time when its ilk in the smartphone hackers-for-hire industry are under heavy fire. Seagate's official website has a link for the older version of this same driver software but the older one does not work with Ventura hence why I've kindly supplied the latest available from Paragon. This driver software is something that Seagate and Paragon have agreed in partnership to allow (compatible) Seagate hard drives to be able to read and write for free using NTFS format. This driver software has nothing to do with the trail/paid version available via Paragon's official website. You have to make sure you are using a compatible hard drive but also you HAVE TO FULLY UNINSTALL any previous versions from your Mac then install the linked version after that and follow the on screen install guide. I'm using it on MacOS Ventura 13.3.1 (a) - working fine read and write. As far as I know the Paragon NTFS driver I've linked is to be used only with compatible Seagate Hard Drives - other brands are not officially supported using this driver.
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