The Israeli vendor's software hit a reporter's iPhone weeks after Apple sought an injunction that would have curtailed such hacks.
Researchers examined the phones of over 60 Jordanian activists and lawyers, finding evidence of Pegasus infections in a handful of them.
Among the infected was award-winning Jordanian journalist Suhair Jaradat, whose phone was hit with Pegasus in December. The report, which doesn’t speculate as to who was behind the breach , says that Jaradat’s phone was compromised via a malicious WhatsApp message from a person pretending to be an anti-government critic. The hack on Jaradat’s device occurred on December 5, several weeks after Apple sued the mercenary
spyware vendor in an effort to get it to curtail Pegasus customers’ attacks on iPhone users. Others among the surveyed group were hacked prior topublished Tuesday by Front Line Defenders, a human rights organization, and Citizen Lab, a digital research unit with the University of Toronto. “In this report, we find once again that a government client of NSO Group has used Pegasus to spy on civil society targets that are neither terrorists nor criminals,” thesays.
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