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NSO Group representatives will no longer answer further questions about the use of the Pegasus for espionage purposes.
French law enforcement officials are investigating reports that the telephone of French President Emmanuel Macron may have been tapped by the Moroccan government using Pegasus spyware developed by the Israeli company NSO Group. Moroccan intelligence agencies allegedly tried to access his private conversations in 2019, the French radio network France Info reported.
Investigations showed that other heads of state and government members, including some 15 French current and former ministers, were also under surveillance. Former French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe and his wife, as well as the current Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire may have been auditioned as well.
We will remind, earlier the French NGO Forbidden Stories and the human rights organization Amnesty International released new data indicating that the governments of dozens of countries are using the Pegasus spy program produced by the Israeli company NSO Group to spy on journalists, human rights defenders and dissidents. The specialists had at their disposal a list of more than 50 thousand phone numbers from the Pegasus application database.
NSO Group officials have announced that they will not respond to further questions about Amnesty International and Forbidden Stories' allegations of misuse of the company's products.
“In light of Forbidden Stories' recent well-planned and well-organized media campaign and its total disregard for the facts, NSO Group announces that it will no longer respond to media inquiries about this and will not play along with a vicious and libelous campaign.” - explained in the NSO Group.
The list of phone numbers "is not a list of targets or potential targets for Pegasus" for espionage, and "the numbers on the list are not relevant to the NSO Group." Any claim that a name on the list is necessarily related to Pegasus' goals is flawed and false, the Israeli company said.
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French law enforcement officials are investigating reports that the telephone of French President Emmanuel Macron may have been tapped by the Moroccan government using Pegasus spyware developed by the Israeli company NSO Group. Moroccan intelligence agencies allegedly tried to access his private conversations in 2019, the French radio network France Info reported.
Investigations showed that other heads of state and government members, including some 15 French current and former ministers, were also under surveillance. Former French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe and his wife, as well as the current Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire may have been auditioned as well.
We will remind, earlier the French NGO Forbidden Stories and the human rights organization Amnesty International released new data indicating that the governments of dozens of countries are using the Pegasus spy program produced by the Israeli company NSO Group to spy on journalists, human rights defenders and dissidents. The specialists had at their disposal a list of more than 50 thousand phone numbers from the Pegasus application database.
NSO Group officials have announced that they will not respond to further questions about Amnesty International and Forbidden Stories' allegations of misuse of the company's products.
“In light of Forbidden Stories' recent well-planned and well-organized media campaign and its total disregard for the facts, NSO Group announces that it will no longer respond to media inquiries about this and will not play along with a vicious and libelous campaign.” - explained in the NSO Group.
The list of phone numbers "is not a list of targets or potential targets for Pegasus" for espionage, and "the numbers on the list are not relevant to the NSO Group." Any claim that a name on the list is necessarily related to Pegasus' goals is flawed and false, the Israeli company said.
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