American technology company Apple has filed a lawsuit against the Israeli company NSO, which makes spy software Pegasus.
According to the AFP news agency, Apple on Tuesday filed a lawsuit in a court in the US state of California, in which it was requested that the Israeli company be stopped from targeting more than one billion Apple users.
According to a statement issued by Apple, the company has stated in the lawsuit that the Israeli NSO group should be permanently banned from using Apple software, services and devices in order to protect Apple users from further harm.The statement added that the NSO group is a "notorious" hacker, a 21st century immoral vested interest group who has developed a highly sophisticated cyber espionage machine that is routinely misused.
It should be noted that the US government had recently blacklisted the Israeli company for its actions against the US foreign policy and national security interests of the NSO group.
Apple has said it is alerting some consumers that they may have been the target of a cyber attack.
The lawsuit, filed by Apple Computer, has created more problems for the Israeli company, which has already been accused of spying on thousands of social workers, journalists and politicians.
However, the NSO group has always denied the allegations, saying that governments use its spy software to fight terrorism and other crimes.He said that child molesters and terrorists use the world of technology freely and the NSO group provides legal tools to governments to fight them.
The software Pegasus can be used to spy on the user's smartphone, read the messages received by the user, view the pictures in the phone, find out the location and the phone's camera. Can also be run.
Before Apple, social networking company Facebook filed a lawsuit against the NSO group in 2019, alleging that the company had hacked the WhatsApp of journalists, human rights activists and others.
Facebook had said in the lawsuit that 1400 devices were targeted by Pegasus software in order to obtain valuable information contained in the WhatsApp.
