The Startup Spyware based in Barcelona, Variston, stops, by file
Variston, a Spyware software supplier based in Barcelona, would have closed.
Online intelligenceA commercial publication which covers the surveillance and intelligence industry, reports that a legal notice published in the Barcelona register on February 10 confirmed that Variston had been liquidated. Techcrunch also saw the legal opinion saying that Variston had closed.
It comes almost exactly a year after Techcrunch reported that Variston was closing After dropping more than half a dozen employees.
The company’s winding would have started after A Google 2022 report revealed the existence of Varison then unknownwho had long worked under a coat of secret.
Former employees of the company told Techcrunch that Variston, founded in Barcelona in 2018 by veterans in the Ralf Wegener and Ramanan Jayaraman spyware industry, prohibited the personnel to disclose where they work. A former employee told Techcrunch that the exposure by Google de Variston “could have been the start of the end” for the spy software manufacturer.
Wegener did not answer Techcrunch questions, and an email at the Variston public email address has not returned.
