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WASHINGTON - US authorities on Wednesday put the Israeli maker of the Pegasus spyware at the center of a scandal over surveillance of journalists and officials on a blacklist of restricted companies.

"These tools enabled foreign governments to conduct transnational repression," says US Commerce Department.

'There hasn't been enough done', Amnesty tells MPs in wake of revelations that phones of British nationals were targeted with NSO software

US says NSO Group, the company behind Pegasus, and Candiru enabled governments to 'threaten the rules-based international order'

With this move, the US government has acknowledged what Amnesty and other activists have been saying for years: NSO Group’s spyware is a tool of repression.

Biden administration says Israeli company’s spyware enables ‘repression’, used to target journalists and activists.

The year 2021 came both as a shock and raised the alarm among the iOS users when the iPhone 11 owned by Claude Mangin got hacked. She is the French wife of the political activist lodged in the Morocco jail. | Pulse Nigeria

Our forensic analysis of two iPhones belonging to Hubbard found evidence of Pegasus infections in July 2020 and June 2021. Notably, these infections occurred after Hubbard reported in January 2020 that we found that he was targeted in 2018 by the Saudi Arabia-linked Pegasus operator that we call KINGDOM.

Togo activist targeted by Indian-made spyware linked to cyber-mercenaries

Dont show me this message again✕ Sheikha Latifa, right, daughter of the ruler of Dubai, was thought to be among those potentially being targeted (via Reuters) Two Dubai princesses were listed as potential targets by clients of an Israeli cyber surveillance company using Pegasus spyware, which is designed to monitor criminals and terrorists, it’s been claimed. Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum, daughter of the country’s authoritarian ruler, and Haya bint Hussein, his sixth – and former...