Cybersecurity

"Barcelona has become the cyber offensive capital of Europe, and Haaretz has learned that at least three teams of Israeli researchers focused on facilitating advanced hacking capabilities have relocated to the Catalonian capital in the past year and a half, the latest of them in recent months.
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"There are roughly six such groups of Israelis who are the elite in the field – and half of them have moved to Spain," says an industry executive.

In the past two months, a team of Israeli vulnerability researchers - an industry term for hackers specializing in identifying weaknesses in digital defenses, known as "exploits" - arrived in Barcelona from Singapore. The team specializes in finding breaches in smartphone defenses through which spyware can be remotely installed."

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2024-12-26/ty-article/.premium/israeli-hackers-flock-to-barcelona-as-spyware-industry-shifts/00000193-fec4-df5b-a9b3-fec5d9dc0000

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