Uganda’s neighbor, Rwanda, had also been using Pegasus to hack phones inside Uganda, but the revelation shocked the US. NSO has always told its customers that US phone numbers are off-limits.

Israel's NSO Group's Pegasus spyware was used to hack the iPhones of 11 U.S. State Department employees working in Uganda, an anonymous source said Friday.

NSO spyware said used to hack phones of State Department officials working in Uganda If recent hack of diplomats phones confirmed, it would represent first time Israeli group’s surveillance ...

We learned earlier this month that NSO’s Pegasus spyware was used to hack US State Department iPhones in Uganda, with no clue at the time who the attacker was.. A new report strongly suggests ...

At least nine employees of the US State Department working in or with Uganda had their iPhones hacked with spyware made by NSO Group, according to a report from Reuters. The Wall Street Journal ...

Sources said Pegasus spyware from the Israeli company NSO Group was used to attack the phones of several American diplomats. ... Politician Norbert Mao, head of Uganda’s Democratic Party, ...

A group of U.S. lawmakers is asking the Treasury Department and State Department to sanction Israeli spyware firm NSO Group and three other foreign surveillance companies ... opens new tab in Uganda.

According to the report, NSO pitched Pegasus to the son of Uganda’s president in February 2019, asking Lt. General Muhoozi Kainerugaba whether he wanted to hack any phone in the world secretly.

But some of NSO’s dark secrets were very publicly revealed last week, when researchers managed to technically deconstruct just how one of the company’s notorious “zero-click” attacks work.

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