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Emmanuel Macron, Cyril Ramaphosa, Imran Khan Among 14 Heads of State Targeted by NSO Group

HeadlineJul 21, 2021

French President Emmanuel Macron has been identified as a potential surveillance target for Morocco in the major data leak of Israeli company NSO and its Pegasus spyware. Fourteen world leaders, including South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, appeared in the list of 50,000 phone numbers that were “people of interest” for NSO clients since 2016.

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