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By Ionut Arghire on December 21, 2020
A recently observed Pegasus spyware infection campaign targeting tens of Al Jazeera journalists leveraged an iMessage zero-click, zero-day exploit for infection.
The Israel-based NSO Group, which has approximately 600 employees in Israel and abroad, made it to the spotlight several years ago, after security firms identified and analyzed Pegasus, a highly invasive spyware family that allows attackers not only to steal data from infected devices, but also turn on the camera and microphone.
The tool, NSO claims, has been developed for government use only, to help fight terrorism and crime. However, cybersecurity firms and human rights organizations have detailed multiple malicious attacks involving Pegasus, many of them targeting journalists and human rights activities.