NEW: Despite its lofty promises of invisibility, NSO Group customers keep getting their spyware operations against journalists and dissidents caught.

“NSO has a basic problem: they are not as good at hiding as their customers think,” said John Scott-Railton, who has investigated spyware for 10+ years.

This week, it was the turn of the Serbian government, who allegedly targeted two journalists with NSO Group's spyware Pegasus, according to Amnesty International.

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Again and again, NSO Group’s customers keep getting their spyware operations caught | TechCrunch

Despite the stealthy nature of spyware, security researchers keep detecting Pegasus spyware attacks in part because of sloppy 'operational security.'

^{Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (TechCrunch)}