In November 2021, a couple of months after the publication of the Pegasus Project, Reuters and other media reported that at least six activists and academics who had been critical of Thailand’s government were notified by Apple that their phone had likely been targeted by “state-sponsored attackers” (the Digital Ministry of Thailand did not immediately answer Reuters’ request for comment).
Exactly one year after the Pegasus Project, a collaborative investigation by Citizen Lab, Thai NGOs iLaw and DigitalReach reveals the infection of at least 30 Thai pro-democracy protesters and activists with Pegasus between October 20202 and November 2021.
In November 2022, eight of them filed a lawsuit against NSO Group, a first for the company in Southeast Asia (the lawsuit was dismissed by the court, on the motive that the cases could not be combined).
In February 2023, Context and Reuters reported that legal non-profit iLaw is planning to sue the Thai government for its alleged use of Pegasus spyware against activists and lawyers in 2020-2021.
In June 2023, two activists filed a lawsuit against Thai government agencies, accusing them of spying on them with Pegasus.