Billionaire Facebook Investor Peter Thiel Secretly Funded A ‘Cyber Warfare’ Startup That Hacked WhatsApp

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As Israeli spyware dealer NSO Group is facing renewed scrutiny over the abuse of its WhatsApp hacking tools, an American startup could also reportedly bypass the messaging app's security. That startup was secretly backed by the millions of billionaire Silicon Valley investor Peter Thiel.

This might seem ironic: Thiel, one of Facebook’s best-known financial backers, is now an investor of a company that has tried to hack the technology of a Facebook-owned company. Not that Thiel is afraid of investing in companies that risk breaking Facebook’s rules in order to assist law enforcement: Founders Fund backed ClearView AI, a facial recognition company that scraped Facebook to fill a huge database of faces that police could later use in investigations.

BlackHorse, which has many more public government contracts than either Boldend or QOMPLX, promises to bring together “cyber, electromagnetic warfare, and information operations for Department of Defense and Intelligence Community customers.” Previously called White Canvas Group,train the United States Marine Corps Forces Cyberspace Command on how to leverage open source intelligence on the web

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