NSO lawyer names Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Uzbekistan as spyware customers accused of 2019 WhatsApp hacks

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NSO lawyer names Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Uzbekistan as spyware customers accused of 2019 WhatsApp hacks - TechCrunch

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This is the first time representatives for the spyware maker have publicly named its government customers.

The revelation comes as part of a lawsuit brought by Meta-owned WhatsApp in 2019, which accused NSO Group of hacking around 1,400 WhatsApp users by exploiting a vulnerability in the messaging app’s systems between around April and May that same year.

For years, organizations like Citizen Lab and Amnesty International have documented cases where Pegasus was used to target or hack journalists, dissidents, and human rights defenders in some of the countries mentioned in the victim list, such as Mexico, Hungary, Spain, and the United Arab Emirates, among several others.