The spy software Pegasus is alive – politics

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Ralf Wiegand, Karin Janker and Peter Münch

There are still new hits, previously unknown victims, new reports, although it has been a year since the Pegasus spy software made headlines around the world. At that time, an international group of journalists published their findings on how the powerful mobile phone Trojan from the Israeli company NSO Group was used against human rights activists, journalists and members of the opposition in various countries. The journalist network Forbidden Stories and Amnesty International shared a data set containing more than 50,000 telephone numbers – alleged targets of users of the Pegasus spy software. Media from all over the world, in Germany the Southgerman newspaperNDR, WDR and the timereport on the consequences of surveillance, which is still illegal in many countries, under the title Pegasus Project.

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