Wiretapping: Intellexa of Dillian, based in Athens, advertised spyware to “Law Enforcement Authorities”

New grounds is being added regarding Intellexa’s practice with “law enforcement authorities,” beyond the aggregate admissions by its founder, Tal Dillian, which shook the country’s governmental country and erstwhile again placed the Prime Minister’s Office and Kyriakos Mitsotakis astatine the halfway of the amerciable surveillance scandal.

Additional documentation emerges from 2 firm brochures attributed to Intellexa, which advertise its products with a wide targeting of “law enforcement authorities” arsenic good arsenic information and quality agencies.

According to worldly obtained by in.gr, the archetypal thematic brochure was printed successful June 2021 by a graphic plan institution based successful Marousi, successful the discourse of Intellexa’s information successful the ISS World conference. The 2nd concerns the presumption of the spyware strategy Helios—a variant of Predator—and was printed by a institution based successful Palaio Faliro, progressive among different things successful graphic design. Intellexa Limited BVI (based successful the British Virgin Islands) had besides signed a confidentiality statement with this company. Both brochures are successful English.

It is noted that, according to the method specifications of Helios, information postulation from the relation was continuous and carried retired covertly—without being detected by the device’s owner—for weeks oregon adjacent months. At the aforesaid time, the bundle was resistant to reboot and mill reset of the mobile phone, portion it supported hundreds of mobile devices operating connected some iOS and Android systems.

Intellexa’s main office successful Athens

The archetypal brochure states that Intellexa’s main facilities are located successful Athens and Paris. It is recalled that successful the French superior the institution Nexa operated, which has been accused of selling surveillance systems to authoritarian regimes and has been described, according to Reporters United investigations, arsenic an “irreplaceable partner” of Tal Dillian.

However, successful the presumption of the Helios system, notation is made to Intellexa’s main office successful Athens, with nary notation of Paris, arsenic besides emerges from the applicable papers presented by in.

Solutions for quality and instrumentality enforcement services

The archetypal brochure includes a summary presumption of Intellexa’s products, which—according to the text—range from information postulation and investigation tools to lawsuit and probe absorption platforms, utilizing among different things artificial quality technologies and cybersecurity services.

A cardinal constituent of the references is the wide targeting of instrumentality enforcement authorities. As stated, “Intellexa provides broad cutting-edge technological solutions, with an operational focus, to conscionable the needs of quality services,” clarifying that “from large-scale nationalist information postulation to targeted cyber operations, our wide merchandise portfolio supports quality organizations successful fulfilling their mission, done a state-of-the-art investigations level and information postulation and investigation tools.”

The aforesaid presumption refers to a “leading quality alliance,” with an integrated portfolio of technologies and solutions aimed astatine quality services and instrumentality enforcement authorities worldwide. A akin absorption is reflected successful the Helios strategy brochure, wherever notation is made to the proviso of “high-quality, state-of-the-art quality solutions” to instrumentality enforcement agencies connected a planetary level.

“Legal wiretapping”

Of peculiar value is the notation successful the archetypal brochure to “lawful interception.” This constituent further strengthens the representation of practice with authorities authorities, fixed that backstage individuals cannot behaviour “lawful interceptions.”

“Intellexa provides strategical national-scale sensors for the postulation of bulk information and the investigation of each subscriber communications. The solutions see a level for targeted lawful interception, compatible with each types of web providers, on with a high-capacity IP probe for large-scale investigation of web traffic,” it is stated characteristically.