What is Pegasus spyware and how does it hack phones? https://amp.theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/18/what-is-pegasus-spyware-and-how-does-it-hack-phones David Pegg and Sam Cutler
Sun 18 Jul 2021  NSO Group software can record your calls, copy your messages and secretly film you 

Huge data leak shatters the lie that the innocent need not fear surveillance The Pegasus project is a collaborative reporting project led by the French nonprofit organisation Forbidden Stories, including the Guardian and 16 other media outlets. For months, our journalists have been working with reporters across the world to establish the identities of people in the leaked data and see if and how this links to NSO’s software. 

Few pause to think that their phones can be transformed into surveillance devices, with someone thousands of miles away silently extracting their messages, photos and location, activating their microphone to record them in real time.

Such are the capabilities of Pegasus, the spyware manufactured by NSO Group, the Israeli purveyor of weapons of mass surveillance.

NSO rejects this label. It insists only carefully vetted government intelligence and law enforcement agencies can use Pegasus, and only to penetrate the phones of “legitimate criminal or terror group targets”.

For more on Pegasus Affair: http://emeets.lnwr.in/index.php/me-mes-for-civil-liberties/surveillance/99-pegasus-affair