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NSO lawyer names Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Uzbekistan as spyware customers accused of 2019 WhatsApp hacks

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Feed Name: TechCrunch Security News

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Date Published: 2025-04-16

Date Updated: 2026-04-23

Author: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai

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TechCrunch reports that court disclosures in the WhatsApp v. NSO lawsuit revealed that NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware was used in a 2019 campaign that exploited a WhatsApp vulnerability to target approximately 1,223 users across 51 countries; during the hearing NSO’s lawyer named Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Uzbekistan as customers and victims included journalists, human-rights activists, and other civil-society members.

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