NSO Group is an Israeli company owned by Novalpina Capital. As per it’s website, “NSO products are used exclusively by government intelligence and law enforcement agencies to fight crime and terror.” 1/n

CitizenLab is housed in the Munk School at the University of Toronto. It’s mandate includes, “study...digital espionage on civil society” 2/n

CitizenLab has been researching on the use of NSO Group spyware globally since 2016 from it’s first focus on the use in Suadi Arabia. It has been linked to the surveillance and killing of Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Kashogi. 3/n

First India specific mention is in September 18, 2018 (Hide and Seek Report) post by CitizenLab in its report, “Hide and Seek”. Part of a technical analysis in which it identified about 45 countries for the installation of, “Pegasus”. 4/n

Please click on the attached images for analysis on the infection model (how pegasus is installed), post infection capability ("pegasus" manual attached) and India specific findings. 5/n https://t.co/HJ36yvHxmf