Cyber watchdogs on Pegasus phone spyware used to target Thai activists

At least 30 political activists in Thailand have been hacked using the Israeli surveillance spyware Pegasus, according to a joint investigation by human rights and cyber monitoring groups, which suspects the attacks were launched locally.
The probe by Thai human rights group iLaw, Southeast Asian internet watchdog Digital Reach, and Toronto-based Citizen Lab, followed a mass alert from Apple Inc in November informing thousands of iPhone users, including in Thailand, that they were targets of “state-sponsored attackers”.
Pegasus has been used by governments to spy on journalists, activists, and dissidents, and the Israeli firm behind it, NSO Group, has been sued by Apple and placed on a US trade blacklist.