AP source: NSO Group spyware used to hack US State Department employees

A logo adorns a wall on a branch of the Israeli NSO Group company, near the southern Israeli town of Sapir. The phones of 11 US State Department employees were hacked using technology from Israel’s NSO Group, the world’s most infamous hacker-for-hire company, a person familiar with the matter said on Dec 3. — AP

WASHINGTON: The phones of 11 US State Department employees were hacked with spyware from Israel’s NSO Group, the world’s most infamous hacker-for-hire company, a person familiar with the matter said on Dec 3.

The employees were all located in Uganda and included some foreign service officers, said the person, who was not authorised to speak publicly about an ongoing investigation. Some local Ugandan employees of the department appear to have been among the 11 hacked, the person said.