The United States on Wednesday added the Israeli spyware company NSO Group to its “entity list,” a federal blacklist prohibiting the company from receiving some American technologies, after determining the company’s phone-hacking tools had been used by foreign governments to “maliciously target government officials, journalists, businesspeople, activists, academics, and embassy workers.”
Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/11/03/pegasus-nso-entity-list-spyware/