https://powerbase.info/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Rayzone_GroupRayzone Group - Revision history2026-11-10T22:25:26ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.35.14https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Rayzone_Group&diff=286986&oldid=prevUnit 8200 Bot: Create/update High-priority firm profile (Unit 8200 research)2026-10-19T16:43:54Z<p>Create/update High-priority firm profile (Unit 8200 research)</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|'''Israeli cyber-intelligence and ADINT company; Echo location product'''}}<br />
{{Infobox company<br />
| name = Rayzone Group<br />
| type = Private<br />
| founded = 2010<br />
| founder = [[Yohai Bar Zakay]], [[Ron Zilka]], [[Matan Caspi]], [[Eran Reshef]], [[Yaron Elrom]]<br />
| hq_location = Tel Aviv, Israel<br />
| industry = Cyber intelligence / ADINT<br />
| products = Echo (ADINT location); TA9 investigation platform<br />
}}<br />
'''Rayzone Group''' (Rayzone) is an Israeli cyber and intelligence company. ''Ctech'' has described it as selling locating and tracking technologies to intelligence and investigation organisations, and has reported that Rayzone also provided cyber services to private business interests in connection with an African mining arbitration dispute.<ref name="CtechRayzone">Tomer Ganon and Hagar Ravet, [https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3885897,00.html Israeli cyber and intelligence company Rayzone embroiled in African mining dispute], ''Ctech'', 5 January 2021.</ref><br />
<br />
== Founders ==<br />
<br />
According to ''Ctech'', [[Yohai Bar Zakay]] (Yohai Bar Zakay Hasidoff) served as assistant to the Director General of the Ministry of Defence (Pinhas Buchris) before founding Rayzone with [[Eran Reshef]], [[Matan Caspi]], [[Ron Zilka]] and [[Yaron Elrom]]. ''Globes'' has described Bar Zakay as a former deputy commander of IDF signals intelligence unit [[Unit 8200]].<ref name="CtechRayzone"/><ref name="GlobesADINT">Assaf Gilead, [https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-defense-ministry-sets-sights-on-adint-companies-1001452394 Defense Ministry sets sights on ADINT companies], ''Globes'', 16 July 2023.</ref><br />
<br />
== ADINT product Echo and export controls ==<br />
<br />
''Globes'' reported in July 2023 that Rayzone operates '''Echo''', a service for security authorities that infers physical location of users from open ad-exchange data, and that under US pressure Israel's Defence Export Controls Agency (DECA) barred Rayzone from exporting a complementary surveillance tool based on a target's exposure to advertisements — a product ''Globes'' said could help install spyware via ads.<ref name="GlobesADINT"/> Rayzone did not respond to ''Globes'' on that story.<ref name="GlobesADINT"/><br />
<br />
''Globes'' also reported that Rayzone had signed a long-term agreement with the Belgian Federal Police for its TA9 investigation platform.<ref name="GlobesADINT"/><br />
<br />
== See also ==<br />
<br />
* [[Discover-Tech]]<br />
* [[Intelos]]<br />
* [[Unit 8200]]<br />
* [[Cyber and tech firms founded by ex Unit 8200 or occupation forces veterans]]<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Israel]]<br />
[[Category:Surveillance]]<br />
[[Category:Unit 8200]]</div>Unit 8200 Bot