"These revelations blow apart any claims by NSO that such attacks are rare and down to rogue use of their technology.
The company said it only sells to "vetted government agencies" for use against terrorism and major crime but critics say these claims are dishonest and that the investigation shows the lack of regulation in the global surveillance industry.Īgnès Callamard, secretary general of Amnesty International, said: "NSO's spyware is a weapon of choice for repressive governments seeking to silence journalists, attack activists and crush dissent, placing countless lives in peril. Responding to the investigation, NSO Group told The Associated Press that it had never maintained "a list of potential, past or existing targets" and that the report was "full of wrong assumptions and uncorroborated theories". Some of the biggest technology companies in the world, including Google, Microsoft, and Facebook, are currently engaged in a legal battle against the company in connection with its hacking tools. We previously investigated this claim, which again, is being made without validation." We can confirm that our technology was not used to listen, monitor, track, or collect information regarding him or his family members mentioned in the inquiry.
The company says it investigates these abuses seriously.Īmnesty International said its forensic researchers had found NSO Group's spyware on the phone of Jamal Khashoggi's fiancee Hatice Cengiz, four days after he was killed at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul three years ago.Ī spokesperson for NSO Group said: "Our technology was not associated in any way with the heinous murder of Jamal Khashoggi. NSO Group's hacking software, known as Pegasus, has regularly been linked to activities by repressive states to target people who are perceived to be challenging the power of leaders. World's first unisex condom invented: 'Once you put it on, you often don't realise that it's there'
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