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WhatsApp snooping row: India Today TV tracks down Israeli firm NSO

India Today's TV team in Israel tracked down the previous office of the surveillance company NSO after the WhatsApp snoopgate scandal rocked India and other countries.

India Today TV found that the Israel-based IT firm NSO have now shifted base to an undisclosed location.

WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned mobile messaging service in October-end informed a few Indian journalists and human rights activists that they were among the 1,400 people globally who were spied upon by unnamed entities using Israeli spyware dubbed Pegasus.

Pegasus allegedly exploited WhatsApp's video calling system by installing the spyware via missed calls to snoop on 1,400 select users globally, including nearly 30-40 in India.

The owner of Pegasus, Israel-based NSO Group, limits the sale of the spyware to state intelligence agencies and others as it has the ability to collect intimate data from a target device. Pegasus software can be installed on devices as "exploit links".

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