Azerbaijan

In July 2021, the Pegasus Project revealed for the first time that the phones of Azeri journalists had been infected with Pegasus spyware by an Azerbaijani client, suggesting that the government may have used the spyware. Overall, the Pegasus Project identified more than 1,000 numbers selected by the same NSO client for potential surveillance (the Azerbaijani government did not respond to the Pegasus Project consortium’s requests for comment).