French President Macron among those targeted by international Pegasus smartphone spyware operation
Washington Post, the list of identified targeted individuals contained fourteen prominent heads of state and governments.
Although none of those who were identified offered their phones up for forensic analysis so the infiltration of their devices with the spyware could not be confirmed, the
Post report said the list of targeted leaders included “three presidents, 10 prime ministers and a king.”
Emmanuel Macron [Sebastien Nogier, Pool via AP]
The identities of the fourteen individuals were derived from the list of 50,000 phone numbers that was leaked to the French media non-profit Forbidden Stories and Amnesty International and then reviewed by the 17 news organizations that comprise the Pegasus Project.