Investigative journalists on Wednesdayfiled suit against the Israel-based surveillance company NSO Group in a U.S. court for allegedly designing and deploying the spyware Pegasus to infiltrate the phones of at least 22 members of El Faro, a leading source of independent news in Central America and a partner organization of the OCCRP.

The European Parliament’s Inquiry Committee into Pegasus and other spyware met Monday for ahearing on the situation in Germany, after a study revealed that a number of EU countries had been utilizing the infamous Pegasus malware.

Israeli cyber arms firm NSO Group that produced the infamous Pegasus software, which some repressive regimes have used to spy on dissidents and journalists, hasannounced on Sunday that co-founder and longtime chief executive Shalev Hulio will be stepping down as part of an internal reorganization.

Authorities in the West African country of Togo arrested three journalists for taking part in a discussion broadcasted end of November live on YouTube about the alleged involvement of two ministers in corruption, the CPJ reported on Monday.

Four Kazakhstani human rights activists had their phones infected by the NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, according to a forensic analysis by Amnesty International’s Security Lab released on Thursday.

Mexican authorities said they arrested a man suspected of illegally intercepting a journalist’s private communications with the infamous Pegasus spyware.

A group of British MPs and peers have called on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to follow in the U.S. government’s footsteps and sanction Israeli spyware firm, NSO group, whose software “Pegasus” has been used by numerous governments around the world to spy on journalists and activists.

In a development of NSO Group’s ongoing legal woes, a U.S. appeals court denied on Monday their motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought on against them by WhatsApp for allegedly using its servers to infect 1,400 of its users’ mobile devices with the infamous Pegasus spyware.

Experts revealed on Monday that spyware produced by the scandal-ridden Israeli NSO Group was found on the cellphones of Palestinian activists, some of whom work for organizations accused by Israel of terrorism shortly after their infection with the Pegasus spyware was detected.

The U.S. blacklisted on Wednesday the Israeli producer of a spyware, which was this summer at the center of a global scandal that unfolded when reporters revealed that the Pegasus software was used for spying on journalists and activists.

Four Democratic lawmakers called on the Biden administration to place sanctions on Israel-based NSO Group, and companies like it, after recent revelations from an international media investigation into how NSO’s Pegasus spyware was used to spy on heads of states, journalists and activists.

Among the apparent targets of NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware was the biggest nemesis of “Leader of the Nation” Nursultan Nazarbayev — and people surrounding his son-in-law. Also on the list were dozens of loyal government officials.

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When their children were killed or abducted, the parents of Ayotzinapa relentlessly petitioned their government for truth and justice. But even as they placed their hopes in the federal government, it may have targeted them for invasive surveillance.

Israel’s government is setting up a task force to decide whether the country’s policy on cyber exports is in need of an overhaul. The move comes after revelations from an international media investigation into Israeli spyware firm the NSO Group, Axios reported on Tuesday.

While they were in office, 14 world leaders from Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East appear to have been selected for targeting with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. Analysis suggests that, in several cases, the users of the hacking tool were their own governments.

The reverberations from an international media investigation into Israeli spyware firm the NSO Group continue, with Amazon saying it will shut down cloud service infrastructure and accounts linked to the surveillance vendor. As Vice reported Monday, Amazon made the call after a global backlash to the firm’s methods.

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The fallout from an international investigation that exposed how authoritarian governments are using Israeli-made spyware to target journalists and activists rippled around the world on Monday, eliciting shock, anger, and some wry humor.

Pegasus software made by Israeli firm NSO Group was used to spy on the daughter of imprisoned dissident Paul Rusesabagina, whose actions during the 1994 genocide were dramatized in a 2004 film starring Don Cheadle.