The Indian list of 300 “verified” numbers includes those used by by “ministers, opposition leaders, journalists, the legal community, businessmen, government officials, scientists, rights activists and others”. The Indian list of 300 “verified” numbers includes those used by “ministers, opposition leaders, journalists, the legal community, businessmen, government officials, scientists, rights activists and others”, it said. Responding to an earlier lawsuit by WhatsApp in California, NSO Group had said that Pegasus was used by sovereign governments in foreign countries. In this, it had alleged that the NSO Group targeted around 1,400 WhatsApp users with Pegasus. However, WhatsApp was one of the attack vectors used to infiltrate the mobile phones of selected targets using Pegasus.

Source: Indian Express July 18, 2021 18:56 UTC