NSO Group co-founder emerges as new majority owner

Lavie did not respond to questions from the Guardian.

While NSO has faced intense scrutiny in recent years, the company is still considered to be sitting on a lucrative product that is coveted by intelligence agencies and governments around the world. Even the FBI acquired a limited licence for Pegasus in 2019, though it has said it never used Pegasus in its investigations and was merely seeking to study the surveillance software.

NSO did not immediately respond to a request for comment.