■■■■□ NSO Fallout
Between April and May 2019, NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware targeted 1,223 WhatsApp users across 51 countries. The distribution of victims by country is as follows:
Country Number of Victims
Mexico 456
India 100
Bahrain 82
Morocco 69
Pakistan 58
Indonesia 54
Israel 51
Spain 12
Netherlands 11
Hungary 8
France 7
United Kingdom 2
United States 1
The majority of these victims were journalists, human rights defenders, and members of civil society. Notably, 456 victims were in Mexico, highlighting the extensive reach of the spyware.
A visual map detailing the global distribution of these victims was published by Amnesty International and other research groups.
This data underscores the widespread misuse of Pegasus spyware against individuals in numerous countries.