FILE PHOTO: Activists and journalists protest outside the Attorney General's Office (PGR) after a criminal complaint following a report that their smartphones had been infected with spying software sold to the government to fight criminals and terrorists in Mexico City, Mexico June 23, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso
(Reuters) - The FBI is investigating the role of Israeli spyware vendor NSO Group Technologies in possible hacks on American residents and companies as well as suspected intelligence gathering on governments, according to four people familiar with the inquiry.
The probe was underway by 2017, when Federal Bureau of Investigation officials were trying to learn whether NSO obtained from American hackers any of the code it needed to infect smartphones, said one person interviewed by the FBI then and again last year.
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