United Nations official and others in Armenia hacked by NSO Group spyware
by Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington from Technology | The Guardian on (#6BX32)
At least a dozen victims were found to have been hacked by Pegasus during clashes in the region in 2021
Researchers have documented the first known case of NSO Group's spyware being used in a military conflict after they discovered that journalists, human rights advocates, a United Nations official, and members of civil society in Armenia were hacked by a government using the spyware.
The hacking campaign, which targeted at least a dozen victims from October 2020 to December 2022, appears closely linked to events in the long-running military conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region.
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