Broad, and Likely Unauthorized, Use of Pegasus Spyware by Israel’s Police Shocks Israel

2/7/22

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The sophisticated Pegasus spyware has been sold by Israeli software-maker NSO to about a dozen authoritarian and democracy-deficient regimes so they could spy on opposition politicians, human rights activists, journalists, civic society organizers, and foreign diplomats – including U.S. diplomats. Among the countries which paid Pegasus millions to buy the spyware: Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Hungary, India, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Morocco, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Togo, and the United Arab Emirates.

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