https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200429/14021244411/israeli-malware-merchants-employee-used-powerful-spyware-to-snoop-potential-love-interest.shtml

NSO Group is not having a great year. At least not on the PR front. The books may be balancing, but its indiscriminate distribution of malware/spyware to questionable governments has been raising eyebrows and blood pressure for years. Now, it's being sued by Facebook for using WhatsApp as its preferred delivery system for malware payloads.

These payloads target criminals and national security threats. But -- since NSO doesn't care who it sells to or what they do with its powerful software -- the payloads also target journalists, dissidents, activists, and attorneys. This malware can take over devices, feeding communications and phone contents to government agencies that want to keep an eye on their enemies -- even when their "enemies" are just critics and people who disagree with their policies.