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NSO lawyer names Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Uzbekistan as spyware customers accused of 2019 WhatsApp hacks
This is the first time representatives for the spyware maker have publicly named its government customers.
In the lawsuit’s complaint, WhatsApp claimed that there were more than 100 targeted victims who work as human rights activists, journalists, and “other members of civil society.” Citizen Lab, a digital rights group that has investigated government spyware abuses for more than a decade, said in a report at the time that it helped WhatsApp identify those victims. When asked, Lainer did not dispute that Mexico, Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan were three company customers at the time of the WhatsApp spyware campaign. For years, organizations like Citizen Lab and Amnesty International have documented cases where Pegasus was used to target or hack journalists, dissidents, and human rights defenders in some of the countries mentioned in the victim list, such as Mexico, Hungary, Spain, and the United Arab Emirates, among several others.
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