Pegasus ‘Gate’: Israeli Task Force will Oversee Response to NSO Group Findings

Israel’s Government is setting up a Task Force to decide whether the country’s policy on cyber exports is in need of an overhaul. The move comes after revelations from an international media investigation into Israeli spyware firm the NSO Group, Axios reported on Tuesday. Two Israeli officials told Axios the government would be forming a “special team” to deal with the Pegasus Project “Gate”, a collaboration by 17 media groups. Named after NSO’s main spy tool, the project used a data leak of more than 50,000 phone numbers to show how authoritarian governments use NSO technology to snoop on public figures and activists around…