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NSO Group spyware used to hack US State employees - Uganda Newswire

NSO Group spyware used to hack US State employees

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The phones of 11 US State Department employees were hacked with spyware from Israel’s NSO Group, the world’s most infamous hacker-for-hire company, a person familiar with the matter said Friday. The employees were all located in Uganda and included some foreign service officers, said the person, who was not authorised to speak publicly about an ongoing investigation. Some local Ugandan employees of the department appear to have been among the 11 hacked, the person said. The hacking is the first known instance of NSO Group’s trademark Pegasus spyware being used against US government personnel. …

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