<ul><li>The governments of Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Uzbekistan have been accused of being behind the 2019 hacking campaign that targeted over 1,200 WhatsApp users with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware.</li><li>This comes as part of a lawsuit brought by WhatsApp, which accused NSO Group of hacking around 1,400 WhatsApp users by exploiting a vulnerability in the messaging app's systems.</li><li>NSO Group's lawyer, Joe Akrotirianakis, named Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Uzbekistan as spyware-using customers during a hearing in the lawsuit.</li><li>The list of countries in the court document includes 51 countries, such as Bahrain, India, Morocco, Spain, UK, and US, where the victims of the spyware campaign were located.</li></ul>

NSO lawyer names Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Uzbekistan as spyware customers accused of 2019 WhatsApp hacks

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