Israeli-made Pegasus spyware found on French ministers' phones - report

• Published date: 26 September 2021
• Author: JERUSALEM POST STAFF
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

Technical analyses were done on the phones in July and showed suspect markers, Mediapart reported.

The spyware is produced by the Israeli NSO Group cyber company and recently came under heavy criticism when a report back in July suggested that the software had been used by authoritarian governments worldwide.

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The spyware had been used to hack 37 smartphones belonging to journalists, government officials and human rights activists around the world, according to the report.

The report also revealed that information from over 50,000 phone numbers had been acquired by clients of the spyware company.

A list of potential targets as set by NSO customers, including French President Emmanual Macron, was then released by multiple sources shortly thereafter, including by Die Zeit and Haaretz. NSO has denied any connection to the list, Haaretz reported, but Pegasus software has been...