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Sandvine put on America's export no-fly list after Egypt used network tech for spying

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Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Threat Score
70/100

Date Published: 2024-02-27

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Jessica Lyons

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The US Commerce Department added Sandvine and Chengdu Beizhan Electronics to the Entity List, alleging Sandvine supplied deep-packet-inspection technology used by the Egyptian government for mass web-monitoring, censorship, and targeting of political and human-rights activists; independent reporting from Citizen Lab alleges Sandvine PacketLogic devices were used to redirect users to malicious sites and deliver spyware such as Predator (now Intellexa).

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