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 https://t.co/tWT7SkVics
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 https://t.co/O9EN4vTbCX
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 https://t.co/OeKdj2w78j
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
On October 29, 2019 CitizenLab published another report titled, “Over 100 hundred new abuse cases”. These victims are Indian. In a list 121 persons include activists, lawyers and journalists 6/n https://t.co/Fu3jhyB97Z
Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister for Electronics and IT made a statement on Twitter on October 31 on "Pegasus". This is not been issued officially through a release on the Press Information Bureau. 7/n https://t.co/JHllHluZ3H
Statements were attributed to officials from @MeityPib that Whatsapp did not inform them of the malware exploit. Contrary to such claim CERT-In issued a vulnerability note WhatsApp filed with Cert -In (CIVN-2019-0080) on May 17. 8/n https://t.co/MoqmEMpKps
NSO products can be sold only to Government vendors. Why? Click the image below. Also click on the link to a copy of a legal opinion to NSO's owner. 9/n https://t.co/J2Rpb3obzl
At the @internetfreedom we have joined a group of civil society organisations in a amici filing against NSO in a california court. In addition we continue increasing awareness on why Pegasus is a threat to individual and national cyber security. 10/10 https://t.co/6SWx2t8n9t
Bonus : If you would prefer a timeline and a video explainer. Here is one! https://t.co/6G8cmnWL40

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