Morocco is not one of the 37 countries authorized by the Israeli Ministry of Defense to use the Pegasus spy software from the Israeli group NSO.
Sources from the cybersecurity sector explained to the Israeli daily Haaretz that NSO has removed Morocco from the white list of countries to which Israel allows the export of offensive cyber programs. In addition to Morocco, Poland, Hungary, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have also been removed from this list.
“NSO is currently working with 22 security agencies, intelligence services, and law enforcement authorities in 12 EU countries,” the NSO Group told the European Parliament inquiry committee set up in March to investigate the use of Pegasus. and equivalent surveillance spyware (PEGA).
The new white list published by the Israeli Ministry of Defense includes 37 countries against 102 previously. It includes the other 25 EU countries, plus the United States, Canada, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, Australia, India, Japan, New Zealand, and South Korea. South.
The same sources assured that NSO continues to work with Spain, considered a “law-abiding state”, despite revelations about the use of Pegasus to spy on more than 60 members of the Catalan independence movement
