“The leak contains a list of more than 50,000 phone numbers that, it is believed, have been identified as those of people of interest by clients of NSO since 2016.”
NSO says Pegasus is only for criminals and terrorists. The leaked list is full of journalists, lawyers and activists. The spyware reads messages, records calls and switches on the microphone. NSO’s customers are governments, so every name on that list was chosen by a state.