While NSO CEO Hulio has gone on the offensive and disputed NSO's connection with the leaked database of phone numbers, the Israeli firm has since said that it would no longer respond to any media enquiries on the allegations. Israel-based NSO Group has repeatedly claimed that it supplies its Pegasus surveillance tool only to vetted governments for the purpose of addressing crime and terrorism. But recent revelations by Project Pegasus have shown evidence that some governments, including India's, might be using the tool to target journalists, activists, opposition politicians, businessmen, among others. Read: Pegasus Spyware: All The Latest Facts On Who Was Targeted, The Modus Operandi, And More The NSO Group has been vehemently denying the allegations made by Project Pegasus but has also indicated that it will investigate serious allegations. Its CEO has also appeared in multiple interviews to address the issue. Here is a compilation of what NSO has said so far and where it stands in terms of investigating the allegations. What has NSO said so far? The following comments were made in two public statements put out by NSO Group on July 18 (the day the Pegasus Project news broke out) and on July 22 (titled "Enough is Enough!"), and in statements submitted to the media bodies that are part of Project Pegasus. Some of the statements made to media companies were made before the news went public. Full of wrong assumptions and uncorroborated theories: NSO stated that the report by Forbidden Stories is "full of wrong assumptions…
