The Hungarian government plans to buy spyware from Israel
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The reason for purchase of the spyware might be to monitor foreigners arriving in Hungary because of the Russian-Ukrainian war. Avnon Group, an Israeli technology company is ready to sell the software to the Hungarian government.
The Avnon Group
Avnon Group is a group of Israeli high-tech companies, developers, manufactures. It distributes advanced weapons, including cyber tools. Its advisory board includes two former generals of the Israel Defence Forces, a former police chief and the former head of the Mossad spy agency. Their activity grew significantly in Eastern Europe since the start of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. These countries are afraid that they, too, will have to face Russian aggression, leading to an armed conflict.
All of their international trades are approved by the Ministry of Defence (who did not comment on the case). Hungary was recently removed from the Israeli government’s export list, so cyber weapons could not be sold to the Hungarian government. But recently the government lifted restrictions as to not interfere with the free market.
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I had better stop commenting here lest some weird Hungarian-accented men in black start knocking on my hotel room door in a couple of months time. 🙂