Last month, Amnesty International, working with over a dozen other news outlets, revealed that they had come into possession of a leaked list of politicians, journalists and activists whose phones had been hacked by a piece of spyware named Pegasus.
The software was developed by an Israeli company called NSO Group, who said it has sold this technology to over 40 governments, although it won’t reveal which ones.
Pegasus can gather data, record videos and even take screenshots once it’s on board, and requires only an unanswered message via Apple’s iMessage to embed itself onto a device.
