"NSO's Business Ethics Committee, which includes outside experts from various disciplines, including law and foreign relations, reviews and approves each transaction and is authorized to reject agreements or cancel existing agreements where there is a case of improper use." Our business is conducted in strict compliance with applicable export control laws," NSO Group spokesperson Shalev Hulio told Citizen Lab. "Contrary to statements made by you, our product is licensed to government and law enforcement agencies for the sole purpose of investigating and preventing crime and terror. ‘Pegasus’ as name suggests, it is ‘flies’ through the air into the target’s.
PEGASUS HACKING SOFTWARE FULL
In response to the Citizen Lab report, an NSO Group spokesperson released a statement saying that the company worked in full compliance with all countries without breaking any laws, including export control regulations. A powerful hacking tool called Pegasus, sold to governments around the world by the Israeli surveillance company NSO Group whose bread and butter is developing spyware, has been used to spy on journalists, business men, human rights activists, politicians etc. Since Citizen Lab tracked down Pegasus infections by creating fingerprints for Pegasus infrastructure to identify the IP addresses associated with the same spyware system, it admitted that there could be some inaccuracies in its report, due to the possible use of VPN and satellite connections by some of its targets.Ĭitizen Lab is keeping those fingerprints secret for now but found they could then be detected by scanning the internet. The report further said that while some NSO customers may be lawfully using Pegasus, at least 6 of those countries with significant Pegasus operations were "known spyware abusers," which means they have previously been linked to the abusive use of spyware to target civil society.
Read More: Ex-NSO Employee Caught Selling Pegasus Hacking Tool For $50 Million Now, a new report released Tuesday from the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab revealed that the Pegasus infections have victimized more countries than previously believed.ģ6 Pegasus Spyware Operations Found Deployed in 45 CountriesĬitizen Lab last month said that it had so far counted as many as 174 publicly-reported cases of individuals worldwide "abusively targeted" with NSO spyware, but now found traces of Pegasus infections across as many as 45 countries.Īccording to the report, 36 Pegasus operators have been using the spyware to conduct surveillance operations in 45 countries worldwide, and at least 10 of these operators appear to be actively engaged in cross-border surveillance.
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