Exposed: How Israeli Spies Control Your VPN
An estimated 1.6 billion people rely on VPNs to carry out the most sensitive tasks online, from watching illegal videos to engaging in sexual or political activities. But few people know that a considerable chunk of that marketâincluding three of the six most popular VPNsâis quietly operated by an Israeli-owned company with close connections to that countryâs national security state, including the elite Unit 8200 and Duvdevan Units of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).
Previous MintPress News investigations into Israelâs growing control over the tech industry have outlined how those units have been involved in many of Israelâs most outrageous hacking, surveillance and assassination programs, acting as spies and death squads. Unit 8200, for example, has been the source of much of the worldâs most infamous spying software, including Cellebrite and Pegasus, the program used to snoop on tens of thousands of the worldâs top politicians and journalists, including by Saudi Arabia, who used it to help track down and kill Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.
Given this context, justifiable fears arise that control over a vast VPN empire could add to Israelâs influence over the online information and security world, creating backdoors for Israeli intelligence to carry out a vast kompromat operation on users around the globe.
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