Facebook tried to buy NSO Group’s iOS spyware to monitor iPhone users

Reported by Motherboard, when Facebook was starting to build its spyware cloaked in a VPN product, Onavo Protect for iOS and Android, the social media company reached out to the controversial company NSO Group that creates spyware for government agencies. NSO declined to sell Pegasus to Facebook, but it stillbuilt and launched Onavo without Pegasus as a spyware tool in early 2018 under the misleading pretense of being a VPN app.

Source: 9to5mac.com