In some cases Pegasus still required a target to click on a malicious link, image, or message to download onto the phone, but increasingly it required no interaction at all. Digging through NSO’s pitch decks and proposals, the company marketed a new zero-click infection method that executives called “over the air stealth installation.” NSO did not detail how exactly it had accomplished this. In some cases they alluded to rigging public WiFi hot spots, but it appeared they could also hijack a target’s phone from long distances. However they did it, NSO’s zero-click infection method was clearly
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