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See how 17 news outlets are coming together to expose Pegasus spyware Shutterstock A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. And the revelations are only just beginning. The consortium began to publish its findings on Sunday. The stories indicate that numerous members of the media were “possible candidates for surveillance,” as The Guardian put it. Forensic tests affirmed the presence of spyware on some phones. More will be coming out in the days ah...

Most users would not be aware of their phones being hacked by the Pegasus spyware. — AP Governments around the world are facing bombshell allegations that they used Israeli-made malware to spy on the phones of activists, journalists, corporate executives and politicians. But how exactly does the Pegasus spyware work? How does it get onto peoples phones — and what can it do once its there? How does Pegasus sneak its way onto a phone? Researchers believe that early versions of the hacking so...

by   Israeli spyware company NSO Group has said repeatedly that its surveillance tools do not work against smartphones based in the United States, but Americans traveling overseas and using foreign cellphones may not enjoy that protection. A list of more than 50,000 phone numbers that included some for documented surveillance targets also included the overseas phone numbers for about a dozen Americans, including journalists, aid workers, diplomats and others, according to an investigation by T...

Monday 19 July 2021 - 3:15pm More recent versions of Pegasus have exploited weak spots in software commonly installed on mobile phones AFP/File | Chris DELMAS PARIS - Governments around the world are facing bombshell allegations that they used Israeli-made malware to spy on the phones of activists, journalists, corporate executives and politicians.  But how exactly does the Pegasus spyware work? How does it get onto peoples phones -- and what can it do once its th...

According to security experts at Amnesty International who worked with the media organizations,  Pegasus works by infecting phones with spyware via vulnerabilities in common apps, or by getting the target to click on an infected link. Once infected, the Pegasus operator may access the target’s text messages, call logs, GPS data, photos and emails, and secretly activate the phone’s camera and microphone. The investigation found an alleged 50,000 phone numbers that have been identified as pe...

endIndex: (CNN) — Scores of journalists from 17 news outlets worked together to expose evidence of industrial-scale spying that targeted journalists, activists, politicians, and business executives. And the revelations are only just beginning. The consortium began to publish its findings on Sunday. The stories indicate that numerous members of the media were "possible candidates for surveillance," as The Guardian put it. Forensic tests affirmed the presence of spyware on some phones. More ...

Kishor, Didi’s nephew on Pegasus’s radar? Updated: Jul 20, 2021, 06:00 IST Unidentified agency using deadly spyware to keep an eye on BJP’s rivals’ NEWDELHI In the midst of the heated assembly elections in West Bengal, the phone of poll strategist Prashant Kishor (in pic) was broken into using NSO Group’ s Pegasus spyware, according to digital forensics conducted by Amnesty International’s Security Lab and shared with The Wire. In addition, the mobile number of key strategist MLA...

U.S. Takes Down Israeli Spy Software Company Published: July 19, 2021 A number of international papers report today on the Israeli hacking company NSO which sells snooping software to various regimes. The software is then used to hijack the phones of regime enemies, political competition or obnoxious journalists. All of that was already well known but the story has new legs as several hundreds of people who were spied on can now be named. The phones appeared on a list of more than 50,000 numb...

New details show how Pegasus was used to spy on political opponents Further details emerged on Monday about the nature and extent of the spyware operation called Pegasus that has been used by governments since at least 2016 to hack into the smartphones of thousands of journalists, activists and business and political figures around the world. The existence of the secret spying software was exposed on Sunday by the French non-profit media group Forbidden Stories and Amnesty International—in co...

Stand: 20.07.2021 06:00 Uhr In Mexiko ist die Spionagesoftware "Pegasus" wohl exzessiv zum Einsatz gekommen. Mehrere Tausend Handys waren im Visier, darunter Nummern von Journalisten und aus dem Umfeld des heutigen Präsidenten. Von Christian Baars, Florian Flade und Georg Mascolo, NDR/WDR Kaum ein Land - abgesehen von Kriegsgebieten wie Syrien, Afghanistan oder Libyen - ist für Journalisten gefährlicher als Mexiko. Alleine im vergangenen Jahr...