NEW: Researchers have found that several people in Armenia, including a govt worker, journalists, activists, and the country's human rights ombudsperson, were hacked with NSO.
The infections happened during a flare up in the years-long Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Because of this, researchers believe these are the first cases of spyware use in the context of a war.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/25/researchers-say-they-found-spyware-used-in-war-for-the-first-time/