NSO Group’s notorious Spyware Pegasus was used to target 1,223 WhatsApp users in 51 different countries during the hacking promotion of 2019 A new court documentThe
The document was published on Friday as part of a Meta-owned WhatsApp case against the NSO Group on Friday, which accuses the surveillance technology manufacturer, alleging that hundreds of users, journalists, journalists, and “other members of the civil society”, were alleged to be a weakness in the chat app.
At the time, WhatsApp said that about 5 users were noticed. Now, an exhibition published in the court document shows that 1,223 in a country of certain victims is okay when the NSO group was targeted with pegasus spyware.
Country breakdown is a rare insight that NSO group customers can become more active and where their damage and goals are located.
The most affected countries of the campaign are Mexico, 66 people, India 1, Bahrain 12, Morocco 693, Pakistan 1, Indonesia 1, and Israel 1, with Israel, under the title of “Counting in the Country Country”.
Spain (12 damaged), Netherlands (11), Hungary (8), France (7), the United Kingdom (2) and western countries like a victim in the United States are also affected.
The court document was first informed with a list of victims in the country Israeli News Site SetechThe
“Numerous news articles have been written for years registered with the use of pegasus to target the victims around the world,” CyberSSCIRTY expert Runa Sandvick said, who was Tracking the victims of the official spyware For the year
“What is often missing from these articles is that the number of true scale-affiliates who have not been notified; who did not examine their devices; those who chose to share their story publicly. The list we see here-with 456 cases in Mexico, Documented, Documents of the Citizens ‘Citizens’ Skille, is the best in the country.”
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Another data that shows the scale of the official spyware problem is that the hacking campaign was only two months aims at WhatsApp users, between “between April 2019 and May 2019”, “WhatsApp wrote as” WhatsApp Real complaintThe
In other words, in just two months, government customers of the NSO group have targeted more than a thousand WhatsApp users.
It is important to note that it is not clear that there is a victim in a particular country that this fact means that the government of a particular country was customer using the NSO group spyware against those victims. It is possible that any government customer can use Pegasus to target someone outside the country.
Such as Citich mentioned that Syria appeared on the victim list, but the NSO group could not export its technology to Syria, it is a country Allowed by countries around the worldThe
The number of victims also gives insight into the NSO group’s highest pay subscribers. Companies such as NSO Group and Hacking Team and other predecessors, such as Finfisher, determine what their surveillance products should be paid to their customers by targeting spyware at the same time.
For example, Million for the Spyware of the Mexico NSO group has spent more than 60 million, 2023 according to the New York Times article It quoted Mexican officials, which could explain why there are so many Mexican goals in this list.
Last year, WhatsApp achieved a Historic Tihasik victory when the judge chaired the case that the NSO group violated US hacking law by targeting WhatsApp users. The next step in the case is an upcoming hearing that will determine the spyware manufacturer’s damage to WhatsApp.
In addition to this list of the victims, the court has led the case to other publications by WhatsApp, the NSO has disconnected 10 public customers after abusing the Spyware, and the WhatsApp hacking equipment produced by the NSO Group has spent $ 6.8 million on the total of $ 31 million on the net.
WhatsApp spokesman Jadle Aleswah refused to comment. The NSO Group did not respond to any request for comments.