A report says operatives linked to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates hacked the phones of dozens of Qatar-based Al Jazeera journalists using an Israeli spyware.

Nigeria’s intelligence agency is revealed to have acquired Israeli spyware to monitor phone calls and text messages of dissidents and other citizens.

A court in Israel has just allowed the controversial military-linked surveillance firm NSO Group to continue to sell its spyware to everyone in Israel and outside of Israel.

A senior pro-independence politician in Spain’s Catalonia region says his mobile phone was hacked with an Israeli spyware last year.

Amnesty says governments around the world have used the NSO’s Pegasus to crack down on activists.

Publicly available records reveal that the British government is providing more than a dozen repressive regimes around the world with wiretaps, spyware and other telecommunications interception equipment they could use to spy on dissidents.