Songbad Weekly 24 English:
An Israeli company has sold a phone spyware to governments to secretly monitor the phones of human rights activists, politicians, journalists and lawyers in various countries around the world, according to media reports.
The Israeli company NSO Group bought the spyware and the buyers reportedly secretly monitored 50,000 phones.
The list and the investigation report have been leaked to some of the world's leading media outlets.
Seventeen media outlets, including The Guardian in London, published the findings simultaneously.
The Israeli company that sold the malware has denied the allegations.
They say they have sold the software to military, law enforcement and intelligence agencies in countries with good human rights records.
Details about the spyware, called Pegasus, have been published in the Washington Post, The Guardian, Le Monde and 14 other media outlets.
India's news portal The Wire lists at least 300 politicians, journalists, rights activists and scientists in the country.
The list also includes two of the portal's founding journalists, The Wire reports.
But media outlets involved in the investigation say they have identified at least 1,000 people in 50 countries around the world.
These include heads of state, politicians, businessmen, human rights activists, and members of several Arab royal families.
The list includes more than 160 journalists, including CNN, Al Jazeera and the New York Times.
Most of these illegal surveillance incidents took place in 10 countries: India, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
When contacted by these countries as part of the investigation, their spokesmen denied using Pegasus and conducting surveillance illegally.
A detailed list of countries whose phones have been hacked using Pegasus will be released in the next few days.
Source: BBC
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