Late last week, media reports said that about 50,000 phone numbers, including those of a dozen world leaders, may have been targeted by an Israeli cyber company's Pegasus spyware.
The Israeli cyber firm NSO Group provides information to the Jewish state's government about who is using the company's spying products, including the Pegasus surveillance tool, The Washington Post (WaPo) has cited unnamed US sources as saying.
The Pegasus phone spyware, once installed, can read text messages and other data on a mobile device, as well as access a smartphone's microphone and camera.
One of the sources claimed "it's crazy to think that NSO wouldn't share sensitive national security information with the government of Israel".
