Pegasus for iPhone was uncovered in August last year, unprecedented in its use of three previously-undisclosed, then-unpatched iOS vulnerabilities (known as zero-days). It targeted a Mexican journalist and UAE activist Ahmed Mansoor, who's currently incarcerated in Abu Dhabi. NSO Group is a portfolio company of American private equity firm Francisco Partners, which Forbes discovered had its fingers in multiple surveillance firms, and in one case was accused of helping Turkey spy on its citizens' via internet service providers.
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