Template:News/Pegasus Project
- 18 July 2021 - Non-profits Forbidden Stories and Amnesty International obtain internal data from cyberweapons developer NSO Group revealing that 'hundreds of business executives, religious figures, academics, NGO employees, union officials and government officials, including cabinet ministers, presidents and prime ministers' have likely been spied upon using Pegasus malware, in many cases by nation-states who buy this capability from NSO group.[The Guardian]
- A selection of likely targets of Pegasus:
- Heads of State: Emmanuel Macron (President of France), Mostafa Madbouly (Prime Minister of Egypt), Barham Salih (President of Iraq), Saad Hariri (Prime Minister of Lebanon), Saadeddine Othmani (Prime Minister of Morocco), Imran Khan (Prime Minister of Pakistan)
- Journalists: Jamal Khashoggi (murdered on orders of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman), Szabolcs Panyi, Siddharth Varadarajan, Cecilio Pineda Birto (assassinated weeks after the suspected hack), Edwy Plenel
- Activists: Loujain al-Hathloul (women's right activist, kidnapped and tortured by Sudi regime)
- Political opponents: Rahul Gandhi (political opponent of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi), György Gémesi (Hungarian politician), G. Parameshwara (Indian politician)
- A selection of likely targets of Pegasus: