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Private equity-backed NSO’s spyware used to target journalist, Amnesty claims

An investigation by Amnesty International has alleged that investigative journalist Omar Radi was spied on by the Moroccan government after his phone was infected using Novalpina-backed NSO's tools

NSO Group, a private equity-owned software company, has come under fire from Amnesty International for the second time in six months, with the human rights group alleging its spyware has been used by Morocco’s government to target an investigative journalist.

Israel-based NSO Group is majority owned by European buyout firm Novalpina Capital and has been accused by Amnesty of licensing its surveillance technology — Pegasus — to authoritarian regimes that use it to target journalists and dissidents around the world.

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