The Mexican attorney general’s office says it is investigating a ~$23M purchase of Pegasus by the prior administration and whether the NSO sold it legally (Reuters)

New York Times:
Internal docs and court records: FBI made a push in late 2020 and H1 2021 to deploy Pegasus in criminal investigations, before dropping the plans in July 2021  —  Christopher Wray, the F.B.I.’s director, told Congress last December that the bureau purchased the phone hacking tool Pegasus for research purposes.

The Citizen Lab:
New Pegasus attacks on Mexican activists and reporters from 2019-2021 found using 0-click exploits, after the new president called Pegasus a thing of the past  —  Key Takeaways  — Mexican digital rights organization R3D (Red en los Defensa de los Derechos Digitales) …

Bloomberg:
Source: NSO Group, which has ~$400M in debt, cut 15% of its workforce and raised prices by ~20% after a potential sale to defense contractor L3Harris collapsed  —  Embattled spyware maker NSO Group is taking drastic steps to pacify creditors holding around $400 million in debt as it waits …

Carly Page / TechCrunch:
Google says Barcelona-based spyware vendor Variston planted spyware by exploiting zero-day flaws in Chrome, Firefox, and Windows between 2018 and 2022  —  A Barcelona-based company that bills itself as a custom security solutions provider exploited several zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows …

Ivan Levingston / Bloomberg:
Dream Security, a cybersecurity company co-founded by former NSO Group CEO Shalev Hulio with a focus on protecting critical infrastructure, has raised $20M  —  The former chief executive officer of Israeli spyware company NSO Group, Shalev Hulio, has joined with ex-Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz …

New York Times:
Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis plans to ban selling spyware after his government was accused of surveillance, resulting in a judicial investigation  —  Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced the ban after a news report claimed that he had directed the use of spyware …