The NSO Group offered “bags of cash” in return for access to an easily exploitable mobile network, according to documents filed to U.S. officials by a whistleblower who was present at a 2017 meeting between the now-infamous Israeli cyberoffense firm and a U.S. telecommunications company.

The claims by whistleblower Gary Miller are being published Tuesday jointly by the Project Pegasus consortium, led by Paris-based NGO Forbidden Stories together with the Washington Post, The Guardian and over 15 news outlets across the world, including Haaretz.

Miller’s claims are supported by documents he provided to the Department of Justice to prove the existence of an August 2017 meeting between NSO and Mobileum, the firm in which he worked in a senior position.

Miller sent the FBI an anonymous letter regarding the meeting four months later, but got no response. In the letter, he informed the FBI about NSO’s desire to gain access to an international mobile network known as the SS7, as well as its offer to pay in cash. The letter and documents were shared with the consortium.

Mobileum did not directly deny the meeting took place but said no deal was ever reached with NSO, which for its part denies offering cash or doing business in fiat currency.

Miller, who is now a mobile security researcher at digital rights group Citizen Lab, filed his whistleblower complaints to a number of U.S. authorities – including the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the...

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