Pegasus Spyware looks to use Gaza conflict to get off US blacklist

Israel’s military is using the NSO Group’s notorious spyware Pegasus to find hostages held by Hamas, according to the US news site Axios.

Axios also alluded to the possibility that Pegasus might be using the current conflict to get its products off the United States' blacklists. Quoting an unnamed source, it said that a “war room” has been established with other tech firms to “track and unlock the phones” of people missing since 7 October.

“I think the people from the government — both in Israel and outside of Israel — and the public … now understand much better the value of these kinds of tools and why they are needed,” said the source.