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NSO group’s Pegasus spyware was found on Jamal Khashoggi’s fiancée’s phone • FRANCE 24

FRANCE24, 19 Jul 2021
Activists, journalists and politicians around the world have been spied on using cellphone #malware developed by a private Israeli firm, reports said Sunday, igniting fears of widespread privacy and rights abuses. The use of the software, called #Pegasus and developed by Israel's NSO group, was reported on by the Washington Post, the Guardian, Le Monde and other news outlets who collaborated on an investigation into a data leak. Among the numbers found on the list were two belonging to women close to Saudi-born journalist #JamalKhashoggi, who was murdered by a Saudi hit squad in 2018.

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