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Pegasus requires no user interaction — a zero-click infection leaves the target unaware their device has been compromised.

AI-generated illustration for NSO Group, made with fal.ai (fal-ai/flux-2-pro).

Prompt: A modern smartphone suspended in darkness with faint ghost-like tendrils silently penetrating the screen and reaching into its internal components, representing invisible zero-click intrusion. The device appears outwardly normal and untouched while unseen forces extract its contents. Style: Detailed digital illustration blending technical schematic linework with painterly atmospheric rendering, as if a scientific textbook were reimagined by a noir graphic novelist. Colour palette of deep midnight blue, charcoal black, and slate grey as foundations, accented with electric teal, bioluminescent green, and cold amber. Lighting is dramatic and directional, suggesting surveillance or laboratory environments — pools of cold light against deep shadow, with occasional glowing circuit-trace highlights. Compositions favour tight framing with layered depth: foreground technical detail dissolving into abstracted background geometry. Detail level is high but purposeful, prioritising legible structure over decorative complexity. Mood is clinical yet ominous, precise yet unsettling. No text, lettering, captions, logos, watermarks or borders unless it is a technical drawing.