Pegasus overview: Terrifying exposé of the world’s strongest spyware and adware

From French president Emmanuel Macron to peculiar whistle-blowers, the surveillance software program Pegasus has been used to focus on hundreds of individuals. Investigative journalists Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud inform its story and clarify why nobody is protected

By Simon Ings

Pegasus

Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud (Macmillan)

EDWARD SNOWDEN’s 2013 leaks from the US Nationwide Safety Company triggered a worldwide debate round state surveillance – however even he couldn’t fairly consider the size of the story described to him in the summertime of 2021.

Whistle-blowers had handed French investigative journalists Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud an inventory of fifty,000 cellphone numbers. These belonged to individuals flagged for assault by a cybersurveillance software program package deal known as Pegasus.

The investigation that adopted is the topic of Pegasus: The story of the …