Candiru (spyware company)
Candiru is a Tel Aviv-based technology company offering surveillance and cyberespionage technology to governmental clients.
| Industry | Surveillance technology |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2014 |
| Founders | Eran Shorer, Yaakov Weizman |
| Headquarters | Tel Aviv , Israel |
Key people | Isaac Zack (Chairman) Eitan Achlow (CEO) |
| Products | Sherlock (spyware) |
| Owner | Isaac Zach (largest shareholder) |
Candiru offers cyberespionage tools that can be used to infiltrate computers, servers, mobile devices, and cloud accounts. Its specialty appears to be infiltration of computers, particularly those running Windows OS.
The company has been described as secretive, with Haaretz describing it as "one of Israel’s most mysterious cyber warfare companies". It does not have a website and requires employees to sign non-disclosure agreements and not to reveal their place of employment on LinkedIn. The company recruits heavily from the IDF's intelligence unit Unit 8200.
The company is named after the candiru, an Amazonian parasitic fish notorious for its apocryphal ability to invade and parasitise the human urethra. The company also uses a silhouette of the candiru fish as its logo.