UAE hand in selecting 400 UK mobile phone numbers for spying
UAE hand in selecting 400 UK mobile phone numbers for spying
Last Updated: Thu, Jul 22nd, 2021, 01:20:10hrs
London, July 22 (IANS) A member of the House of Lords is among more than 400 people whose UK mobile phone numbers appear in a leaked list of numbers identified by NSO Groups client governments between 2017 and 2019, the Guardian reported.
The Guardian said that the principal government responsible for selecting the UK numbers appears to be the United Arab Emirates, according to analysis of the data. The UAE is one of 40 countries that had access to the NSO spyware that is able to hack into and secretly take control of a mobile phone.