The Pegasus Project is the name of a large-scale investigation into the leak of 50,000 phone numbers of potential surveillance targets that revealed the abuse of NSO Groups spyware. The surveillance campaign targeted heads of state, activists and journalists, including the family of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi family before and after he was killed in Istanbul on 2 October 2018 by Saudi operatives. At least 180 journalists in 20 countries were the targets of a massive surveillance activity with NSO spyware between 2016 to 2021.”]
Source: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/120291/malware/pegasus-project-nso-pegasus-spywar.html