Report finds NSO Group’s spyware used on Bahraini activists

A logo adorns a wall on a branch of the NSO Group company, near the southern Israeli town of Sapir. Nine activists from Bahrain had their iPhones hacked by advanced spyware made by NSO Group, the world’s most infamous hacker-for-hire firm, Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, a cybersecurity watchdog reported. The watchdog said NSO Group’s Pegasus malware successfully hacked the phones between June 2020 and February 2021. — AP

RICHMOND, Virginia: Nine activists from Bahrain had their iPhones hacked by advanced spyware made by the Israeli company NSO Group, the world’s most infamous hacker-for-hire firm, a cybersecurity watchdog reported on Aug 24.

Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto said NSO Group’s Pegasus malware successfully hacked the phones between June 2020 and February 2021. Those reportedly hacked included members of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights and two political dissidents living in exile. At least one of the activists lived in London when the hacking occurred, Citizen Lab said.