France launches probe into spying on media by Moroccan intelligence services
PROSECUTORS IN FRANCE HAVE opened an investigation into claims that the intelligence services of Morocco spied on French journalists’ phones, using a controversial surveillance software marketed by an Israeli firm. Since 2018, IntelNews has covered the controversial spyware, Pegasus, and its maker, NSO Group Technologies, an Israeli digital surveillance company based in Herzliya, a small coastal town located north of Tel Aviv. The Pegasus surveillance software is able to install itself on targeted telephones without requiring their users clicking a link, or downloading an application. It t...