NSO Group Offered Mobile Firm 'Bags of Cash' to Track People Through Their Cell Phones, Report

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According to an allegation made by Gary Miller, a former network executive of mobile firm Mobileum, an executive at NSO Group offered his company “bags of cash” in exchange for access to a global signaling network known as SS7 used to track individuals through their mobile phones.

The allegation, made in 2017, was disclosed to federal authorities and to congressman Ted Lieu, who said he conducted his own due diligence on the claim and found it “highly disturbing.” Lieu raised the allegation in a letter to the Justice Department.

Separately, the Pegasus Project media partners have learned that NSO is the subject of an active criminal i…