What’s up with all this recent talk about NSO spyware? Is someone looking for a market short?
Doubt if it is a market short as NSO is an Israeli Company and its 'Pegasus' smartphone (and elsewhere) spyware has been 'in-the-wild' for multiple years. What has produced this sudden news blitz is a new undercover operation, "The Pegasus Project", by Amnesty International and a consortium of journalists & media, to expose the scope & power of this spyware.
"At the centre of this investigation is NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware which, when surreptitiously installed on victims’ phones, allows an attacker complete access to the device’s messages, emails, media, microphone, camera, calls and contacts."
200 journalists around the world targeted with a highly-sophisticated spyware tool developed by Israeli company NSO Group that gives clients access to the entirety of a phone’s contents and can even remotely access the camera and microphone.
If we don’t do anything to stop the sale of this technology, it’s not just going to be 50,000 targets. It’s going to be 50 million targets, and it’s going to happen much more quickly than any of us expect. .. ~Edward Snowden