The infamously controversial Israeli security company, the NSO Group, has actually launched court documents that reveal Facebook tried to buy Pegasus, the spyware created by the group, in2017 Pegasus can be used to jailbreak a gadget and load malware onto it.
How does Pegasus work?
Those being assaulted simply need to click on a “relatively innocuous link” received through a message and that lets the spyware jailbreak the user’s device and load malware to keep track of, and take data from, it. This information is exported to the individual (or organisation) who sent out the link, and in most cases it is sensitive data.
Data harvested from target devices include all messages, log-in info, images and information worrying the entire history of the phone’s location.
NSO has said that it only sells its products to a “sovereign federal government or federal government company”, nevertheless, according to the declaration made by NSO CEO Shalev Hulio, two Facebook