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French President Emmanuel Macron's mobile phone could have control over the Pegasus program. The supervision was probably carried out by Moroccan special services, writes Le Monde.
It was previously known that among those whose gadgets became the target of Israeli software were some heads of state.
Israeli spyware Pegasus was used to attempt and successfully hack 37 smartphones belonging to journalists, human rights activists, businessmen and two women close to the murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
These phones have been included in a list of more than 50,000 numbers from countries that track their citizens and are clients of the NSO group, the program's producer.
Reporters were able to identify more than 1,000 people from more than 50 countries, including several members of the royal family in Saudi Arabia, at least 65 business executives, 85 human rights defenders, 189 journalists and more than 600 politicians, and government officials, ministers, diplomats, military and security personnel.
The list also found a number of several heads of state and government, Forbes writes.