CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -NSO Group Technologies (NSO standing for Niv, Shalev and Omri, the names of the company’s founders) is an Israeli cyber-intelligence firm primarily known for its proprietary spyware Pegasus, which is capable of remote zero-click surveillance of smartphones. It employed almost 500 people as of 2017.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Pegasus Project was a collaborative investigative journalism initiative undertaken by 17 media organisations. Pegasus is a spyware developed by the NSO Group, an Israeli technology and cyber-arms firm that can be secretly deployed on mobile phones and other devices, which run most versions of Android and iOS.

Detailed explanation-3: -Pegasus spyware is zero-click mobile surveillance software designed to infiltrate iOS and Android devices to secretly collect information. Pegasus has extensive data-collection capabilities - it can read texts and emails, monitor app usage, track location data, and access a device’s microphone and camera.

Detailed explanation-4: -Pegasus (spyware), spyware developed by Israeli cyber-intelligence firm NSO Group (founded in 2010) for eavesdropping on mobile phones and harvesting their data. The spyware has been highly controversial, used to track politicians, government leaders, human rights activists, dissidents, and journalists.