Here is another report from the well respected Citizen Lab about the use/misuse, sale/mis-sale of the spyware Pegasus by the Israeli NSO Group.
GeckoSpy: Pegasus Spyware Used Against Thailand’s Pro-Democracy Movement – The Citizen Lab
The sale of these types of cyber weapons on the open market, is enabling governments who up to now have not invested in this type of cyber-tool or even had the expertise and resources to create their own, to quickly get into the cyber-espionage business.
However the NSO Group will sell the whole lot to an American defence contractor!
Further Reading
Pegasus Spyware at Smart Thinking Solutions
Apple announces specialised security for high risk users – Smart Thinking Solutions