This is worrying news less than a year before the French presidential elections.
A thousand French phones have reportedly been targeted by “Pegasus” spyware, distributed by the Israeli firm NSO Group.
Political figures have been affected, including the French president himself, as revealed by France Info and Le Monde.
If it is impossible for the moment to know with certainty which are the really infected terminals, the Elysée evoked facts "very serious" if they are "proven", by promising that "that all the light be made" on this case. Nicolas Berrod, journalist at Le Parisien deciphers this global scandal.