Source: Spain is Customer of NSO Group

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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pkyzxz/spain-nso-group-pegasus-catalonia

By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai & Joseph Cox
Vice.com
July 14, 2020

The cellphones of several politicians in Spain, including that of the 
president of one of the countries’ autonomous regional parliaments, were 
targeted with spyware made by NSO Group, an Israeli company that sells 
surveillance and hacking tools to governments around the world, according 
to The Guardian and El Pais . Motherboard confirmed the specifics with 
security researchers who investigated the attempted hack and a Facebook 
employee who has knowledge of the case.

A former NSO employee has told Motherboard that the Spanish government has 
been an NSO customer since 2015.

"We were actually very proud of them as a customer," the former employee 
said. "Finally a European state." Motherboard granted the source anonymity 
to protect them from retaliation from the company.

We cannot confirm whether these specific attempted hacks were directed by 
the Spanish government, though one of the politicians targeted believes 
the Spanish government is behind the attack.

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