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Israel's Mossad Used Pegasus Spyware to Hack Cellphones Unofficially

NSO employees tell Haaretz that Mossad officials frequently visited its HQ under former head Yossi Cohen, sometimes with foreign officials. They asked to hack certain phones with Pegasus spyware

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The Mossad used NSO’s Pegasus spyware to hack cellphones unofficially under the agency’s previous director, Yossi Cohen, several NSO Group employees said.

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