# Pegasus Spyware **Domain:** Commercial Spyware / Mobile Security / Surveillance **Doc Type:** Technology Node **Maturity:** Canonical ## Definition **Pegasus** is commercial spyware associated with NSO Group that can compromise mobile devices and provide access to sensitive communications, sensors, location and stored information. ## Public-Interest Context Investigations by journalists and technical researchers documented potential targeting involving government figures, journalists, human-rights defenders, attorneys and others. A name appearing in a potential-targeting dataset does not by itself prove successful device infection; forensic confirmation requires device evidence. ## Sources / Provenance - [Citizen Lab — Pegasus research](https://citizenlab.ca/tag/pegasus/) ## See Also [[wiki/Commercial Spyware|Commercial Spyware]], [[wiki/Highly Targeted Individuals|Highly Targeted Individuals]], [[wiki/Digital Forensics|Digital Forensics]]