"Our latest findings show that increasingly, journalists in India face the threat of unlawful surveillance simply for doing their jobs, alongside other tools of repression including imprisonment under draconian laws, smear campaigns, harassment, and intimidation," said Donncha O Cearbhaill, Head of Amnesty International's Security Lab.

Indian media reported last month that the country's cyber security unit was investigating allegations by opposition politicians of attempted phone tapping after they reported receiving Apple iPhone warnings of "state-sponsored attackers".

Spyware like Pegasus has been widely used by governments and other actors to spy on opponents, media and activists. The programs can be placed on computers and cellphones by phishing communications and backdoor exploits, and can survey and transmit information on the phone back to an operator without the user's...

The White House said commercial spyware poses a distinct intelligence threat to the United States and has been found on the phones of 50 US officials overseas. In addition, a number of foreign governments have used it "to facilitate repression and enable human rights abuses."

Claiming that they were "victims of illegal intrusion into their phones by Pegasus software", they said they are planning to file a joint complaint under a case brought by messaging service WhatsApp, which accuses NSO of allowing mass espionage against activists and journalists. "These practices must stop immediately," lawyer Fouad...

Rabat, Morocco--The Moroccan parliament decried Wednesday an "unjust campaign" against it at the European Parliament ahead of a hearing in Brussels over the North African country's alleged use of Pegasus spyware. The European Parliament is set to hear from experts, human rights defenders and journalists on Thursday on claims that Morocco...

The indebted, privately owned company also said it would focus sales on countries belonging to the NATO alliance. In July last year, an investigation revealed that Pegasus spyware had been sold by NSO to governments around the world and used against human rights activists, politicians, reporters and others.

Palestinian lawyer Salah Hamouri, who is in Israeli detention, filed a complaint in France Tuesday against surveillance firm NSO Group for having "illegally infiltrated" his mobile phone with the spyware Pegasus.

The latest bombshell from business daily Calcalist alleged that Pegasus was used against a son of former premier Benjamin Netanyahu and his advisors, as well as activists, senior government officials, businessmen and others.

An updated Israeli end user certificate issued Monday, to be signed by buyers, listed terrorism as including offences committed with the aim of ‘seriously intimidating a population’ or ‘unduly compelling a government’ through crimes such as hostage taking and potentially fatal attacks upon a person's life.

The trip comes less than a year after Morocco normalized ties with Israel in a deal brokered by former US president Donald Trump's administration.

The company, NSO, was engulfed in controversy over reports that tens of thousands of human rights activists, business executives, journalists, and politicians worldwide were listed as potential targets of its Pegasus software.

The companies face outrage after pulling a Russian opposition app.

Researchers found the problem while analysing a Saudi activist's phone

A consortium of major media companies, including the Washington Post and France’s Le Monde, recently said that one of Macron’s phone numbers was on the leaked list of potential Pegasus targets.

Bennett has defended his government saying the events occurred before he took office in May

Israel has started a probe into the Tel Aviv-headquartered NSO Group, even as the company itself says it will investigate any proof of “misuse” of its surveillance software Pegasus.

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have dismissed allegations they used Israeli-supplied Pegasus malware to spy on journalists and human rights activists.

Israel has set up a ministerial team to look into the Pegasus spyware scandal, while the NSO Group stopped taking media queries

An Israeli firm accused of supplying spyware to governments has been linked to a list of tens of thousands of smartphone numbers from around the world.

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