French authorities conducted forensic inv of phone belonging to French journalist and found evidence of NSO's Pegasus spyware on it. The journo's phone # was on list that Pegasus Project obtained, but the phone had not previously been analyzed by Amnesty. lemonde.fr/projet-pegasus…
Correction: it appears what they found was evidence the phone had been targeted for Pegasus - presumably it received a txt msg. "We find in effect the same e-mail addresses attached to Apple accounts used by the attacking infrastructure of the NSO Group's Moroccan customer."
From translation of article: "These identifiers...were also found among other Pegasus Moroccan targets, notably Omar Radi, an imprisoned Moroccan journalist, Claude Mangin, a former Sahara militant who had also been imprisoned in Morocco"
"These traces show that the spy software is interested in the phone call of this journalist in three installments: in May 2019, in September 2020 and January 2021."
Note - I said it appears that a txt msg was sent to the phone from an account known to be associated with an NSO client's previous activity. I meant it appears a silent message was sent to the phone - not a txt msg that the user would see.
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