But now a researcher is claiming the elite Tel Aviv-based firm sold cyber weapons to the government of Uzbekistan, whilst industry sources tell Forbes the company is hacking both Microsoft Windows and Apple Macs for various nation states. And one of those Candiru customers is almost certainly Uzbekistan, according to Brian Bartholomew, a researcher at Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab. He claimed that a lapse in an Uzbekistan intelligence agency's operational security allowed him to link multiple Windows vulnerabilities used in Uzbek attacks back to Candiru and two other customers: Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E. But because the agency exposed its Windows exploits on the web, Kaspersky researchers were able to link them to other malicious software Bartholomew says were created by Candiru, namely those that appeared to be controlled by Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E. Bartholomew and another source with knowledge of the attacks said he discovered Candiru surveillance software was used in previously-reported hacks on Uzbek human rights activists and independent media.
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