Victim’s iPhone hacked by Pegasus spyware weeks after Apple sued NSO

Quartet targeted by clients - thought to be Jordanian government agencies - of Israeli company even after Apple sued in November

New evidence has revealed that an Apple iPhone was successfully hacked by a government user of NSO Group's Pegasus spyware in December, weeks after the technology giant sued the Israeli company in a US court and called for it to be banned from harming individuals" using Apple products.

A report published on Tuesday by security researchers at Front Line Defenders (FLD) and Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto found that phones belonging to four Jordanian human rights defenders, lawyers and journalists were hacked by government clients of NSO - which appear to be Jordanian government agencies - from August 2019 to December 2021.