"ICE reactivated its $2 million contract with Israeli spyware firm Paragon, following its acquisition by U.S. capital" 2 September 2025

A $2 million contract between the U.S. branch of the Israeli spyware vendor Paragon Solutions and the cyber division of U.S. Homeland Security Investigations was quietly reenabled on Saturday, according to an official U.S. Government public procurement notice.

“This modification is to lift the stop work order,” read the update on Saturday, referring to a hold placed on the contract on October 8 as a result of a review initiated by the Biden White House. According to WIRED, the pause related to concerns that the contract potentially violated the administration’s March 2023 executive order limiting U.S. procurement of spyware...

...Two months after a stop work order went into effect on the $2 million contract, Bloomberg reported that Paragon — which was founded by Ehud Schneorson, a former commander of Israel’s signals intelligence agency, Unit 8200 — had been acquired by the Boca Raton-based private equity firm AE Industrial Partners. As a result, Paragon was merged into the Virginia-based cyber intelligence firm REDLattice.

Now that Paragon is American-owned, the Trump administration has quietly lifted the stop work order of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s procurement of the firm’s spyware. While already public within the upstream Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS.gov), the end to the stop work order is expected to become public in USASpending.gov by the end of Tuesday...

...Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), the U.S. military’s premier counter-terrorism and direct action unit, which works closely with the CIA, has disclosed spending more than $11 million acquiring REDLattice’s products, including $6 million on July 18...