You may not have heard of NSO Group, a Jerusalem-based tech company, but you may already be a victim of its Pegasus software.
Across the world, dissidents, activists, and those seeking freedom and liberty from tyranny have been targeted by the Pegasus malware that transforms their cell phone into a pocket spy that turns state’s evidence against them.
Forbidden Stories, a non-profit organization similar to WikiLeaks, obtained thousands of pages of records and shared them with multiple media outlets Monday. Those records indicate that several prominent dissidents around the world were targeted by NSO’s Pegasus software. Many of them were blackmailed, charged with crimes, or otherwise compromised by the evidence their own phones provided.
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