In July 2021, the Pegasus Project revealed that around 300 Lebanese numbers were selected for potential surveillance by clients of NSO Group, including those of former Prime Minister Saad Hariri while he was in office; President Michel Aoun; former Minister of Foreign Affairs Gebran Bassil; central bank governor Riad Salamé; head of the General Directorate of General Security Abbas Ibrahim; Hezbollah officials; government officials; businessmen and journalists.
In November, Al Akhbar journalist Radwan Mortada announced on Twitter that Apple had notified him that his phone had been targeted by “state-sponsored attackers” with Pegasus.
Six months after the Pegasus Project, in January 2022, Human Rights Watch discovered that the phones of a US-Lebanese staff member living in Lebanon, Lama Fakih, was repeatedly infected with Pegasus.