The redevelopment of the market for suppliers of spyware and other mass surveillance technologies continues, with the United States increasingly taking control and dominating the market.
This time, the Canadian company Sandvine came under the sanctions press of the US Department of Commerce, which was caused by a contract with the Egyptian authorities.
An official press release claims that Sandvine's network equipment was used to monitor and censor Internet traffic in Egypt and conduct attacks on local politicians and human rights defenders.
Sandvine Canada and five of its subsidiaries have been added to the Commerce Department's BIS list, which prohibits individuals from selling Sandvine technologies without a U.S. government license.
Thus, Sandvine becomes the fifth supplier of commercial surveillance and espionage software included in this list, along with the well-known Candiru, NSO Group, Intellexa and Cytrox, who were sanctioned in 2021 and 2023.
Sandvine was founded in 2001 and is known for its network traffic analysis solutions, enabling network congestion elimination and deep packet inspection.
The company's problems began to arise in the late 2010s, when human rights groups and researchers began to accuse the company of collaborating with advocates of democracy.
In its 2020 report, Bloomberg reported that Sandvine equipment is involved in Internet censorship in 15 countries-Algeria, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Eritrea, Jordan, Kuwait, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Sudan, Thailand, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Uzbekistan.
In addition, according to a report by CitizenLab last September, Sandvine's capabilities were used to deliver Predator spyware to the phone of Ahmed Eltantawi, a member of Parliament who participated in the presidential campaign.
Moreover, according to CitizenLab, this method of implementation through Sandvine was similar to the 2018 incident in Turkey for delivering spyware to hundreds of users.
Increased pressure also contributed to the fact that she had to leave Belarus in 2020 after reports that Sandvine equipment was used during the election campaign.
Later in 2023, it was squeezed out of the US market.
It is likely that the trade restrictions on Sandvine are implemented by analogy with CE Sandvine, which uses technologies and specialists in the United States for a long time, but works under a new brand and new curators, and most importantly with a new order portfolio.
This time, the Canadian company Sandvine came under the sanctions press of the US Department of Commerce, which was caused by a contract with the Egyptian authorities.
An official press release claims that Sandvine's network equipment was used to monitor and censor Internet traffic in Egypt and conduct attacks on local politicians and human rights defenders.
Sandvine Canada and five of its subsidiaries have been added to the Commerce Department's BIS list, which prohibits individuals from selling Sandvine technologies without a U.S. government license.
Thus, Sandvine becomes the fifth supplier of commercial surveillance and espionage software included in this list, along with the well-known Candiru, NSO Group, Intellexa and Cytrox, who were sanctioned in 2021 and 2023.
Sandvine was founded in 2001 and is known for its network traffic analysis solutions, enabling network congestion elimination and deep packet inspection.
The company's problems began to arise in the late 2010s, when human rights groups and researchers began to accuse the company of collaborating with advocates of democracy.
In its 2020 report, Bloomberg reported that Sandvine equipment is involved in Internet censorship in 15 countries-Algeria, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Eritrea, Jordan, Kuwait, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Sudan, Thailand, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Uzbekistan.
In addition, according to a report by CitizenLab last September, Sandvine's capabilities were used to deliver Predator spyware to the phone of Ahmed Eltantawi, a member of Parliament who participated in the presidential campaign.
Moreover, according to CitizenLab, this method of implementation through Sandvine was similar to the 2018 incident in Turkey for delivering spyware to hundreds of users.
Increased pressure also contributed to the fact that she had to leave Belarus in 2020 after reports that Sandvine equipment was used during the election campaign.
Later in 2023, it was squeezed out of the US market.
It is likely that the trade restrictions on Sandvine are implemented by analogy with CE Sandvine, which uses technologies and specialists in the United States for a long time, but works under a new brand and new curators, and most importantly with a new order portfolio.
