The Pegasus Project, a consortium of media organisations that included The Wire, revealed in July 2021 that the intrusive spyware was used by governments around the world to target journalists, politicians and civil society members.
An error in Pegasus allowed Saudi women's rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul and privacy researchers to discover a trove of evidence suggesting that NSO Group had helped hack her iPhone.
According to reports, Israel's NSO group may be shutting down the controversial Pegasus unit and could be selling it to a US investment fund.
The US had blacklisted NSO amid allegations the Israeli firm "enabled foreign governments to conduct transnational repression".
The US government had said that Pegasus spyware allowed foreign governments to "target dissidents, journalists and activists outside of their sovereign borders to silence dissent". NSO had allegedly used its spyware to target US diplomats in Uganda.
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