Quadream was an Israeli surveillance technology company.[1][2] It prominently sold iPhone hacking tools,[2] and was founded in 2014 by a group including two former NSO Group employees, Guy Geva, and Nimrod Reznik.[3] Its offices were in Ramat Gan.[3] The company is suspected to have shut down in April 2023.[4] It is owned by a parent company in Cyprus.[2]

Quadream is believed to have developed "zero-click" exploit tools similar to those used by NSO Group.[5] Its customers include the government of Saudi Arabia.[2][6] In at least 10 countries and continents North America and Europe, governments used tools developed by Quadream against journalists and opposition.[4]

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  1. "NSO rival Quadream in talks with Moroccan gov't". Globes. 2021-10-08. Retrieved 2022-02-03.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Secretive Israeli Cyber Firm Selling Spy-tech to Saudi Arabia". Haaretz. Retrieved 2022-02-03.
  3. 1 2 How Democracies Spy on Their Citizens; By Ronan Farrow, April 18, 2022, The New Yorker
  4. 1 2 "Israeli spyware company QuaDream expected to close down - report". Jerusalem Post. April 17, 2023.
  5. Bing, Christopher; Satter, Raphael (2022-02-03). "EXCLUSIVE iPhone flaw exploited by second Israeli spy firm-sources". Reuters. Retrieved 2022-02-03.
  6. Abu Sneineh, Mustafa. "Saudi Arabia deploys new Israeli spyware to hack activists' phones: Report". Middle East Eye. Retrieved 2022-02-03.


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