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Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Friday, 26-Aug-2016 04:49:20 CEST Mike Gerwitz Analysis on the Pegasus spyware from NSO Group, and what the authors call Trident (exploiting iOS using CVE-2016-465{5,6,7}):
https://info.lookout.com/rs/051-ESQ-475/images/lookout-pegasus-technical-analysis.pdf
Companies that sell exploits to governments are unethical to begin with. But those that sell to governments that use it to track human rights activists like Ahmed Mansoor? Absolute scum:
https://citizenlab.org/2016/08/million-dollar-dissident-iphone-zero-day-nso-group-uae/
The first link (paper) mentions the founders of NSO Group (since purchased by Francisco Partners): Niv Carmi, Shalev Hulio, and Omri Lavie.