Over 200 Spanish mobile numbers ‘possible targets of Pegasus spyware’

Data leak reveals scale of potential surveillance by NSO Group client believed to be Morocco

More than 200 Spanish mobile numbers were selected as possible targets for surveillance by an NSO Group client believed to be Morocco, according to the data leak at the heart of the Pegasus project.

Details of the scale of the apparent targeting came as Spain’s highest criminal court opened an investigation into how the mobile phones of the prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, and the defence minister, Margarita Robles, came to be infected with Pegasus spyware last year.

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