Tech giant Apple has filed a lawsuit against the Israel-based company NSO Group, the developer of infamous Pegasus spyware, seeking a permanent injunction to ban NSO Group from using any Apple software, services or devices.
The company admitted that a small number of its users may have been targeted by a NSO Group’s exploit to install Pegasus on Apple devices.
“State-sponsored actors like the NSO Group spend millions of dollars on sophisticated surveillance technologies without effective accountability. That needs to change,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering.
