Pegasus: Indian politicians and reporters on list of targets for spyware ‘sold only to governments’
Pegasus: Indian politicians and reporters on list of targets for spyware ‘sold only to governments’
According to the Wire, forensic tests confirmed the presence of hacking software on some of the Indian numbers on a leaked list of Pegasus targets. Updated 3 hours ago The leaked list features more than 50,000 phone numbers. | Malware Infection by Visual Content is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Phone numbers of Indian ministers, opposition politicians, journalists, activists and others are listed on a leaked database that reportedly reflects potential targets of illegal cyber surveillance using the Pegasus hacking software, according to the
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Aserbaidschan ist offenbar ein Kunde der israelischen Firma NSO. Mit deren Spionagesoftware wurden wohl zahlreiche Journalisten und Menschenrechtsaktivisten in der Kaukasusrepublik ins Visier genommen. Von Christian Baars, Florian Flade, Johannes Jolmes und Georg Mascolo, NDR/WDR Khadija Ismayilova war immer sehr vorsichtig. Ihr war klar, dass man es auf sie abgesehen hatte. Du weißt die ganze Zeit, dass du überwacht werden könntest , sagt die 45-jährige Journalistin. Sie stammt aus Aserbaidschan, einem Land im Kaukasus. Dessen Regierung ist für Menschenrechtsverletzungen, für die Unterdrückung der Opposition und Verfolgung von Journalisten und Aktivisten bekannt.
Pegasus spyware hacking: Reports show latest iPhones with iOS 14 can be hacked with zero-click iMessage exploit
NSO Group s Pegasus software was used to snoop on iPhones of high-profile entities and Apple s zero-click exploit in iMessage made it easier. Shubham Verma
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NSO Group s Pegasus software is notorious for being a spying tool.
WhatsApp has criticised NSO Group for developing tools like Pegasus.
Pegasus spyware-making Israeli company, NSO Group, has found itself in dire straits again. The software was used to snoop on a big set of people, as their mobile numbers were found in a leaked database. NSO Group s spyware is already notorious for giving backdoors to the mobile phones of the targeted entities. Both Android and iPhone are the targets, but the latter is far easier to be put on surveillance through Pegasus. And, according to a report, Apple s zero-click exploit on iMessage made this job even easier.
In the United States we have the National Security Agency (NSA). The NSA collects all available metadata on almost all electronic devices worldwide that can be reached. Access to that database underpins the “
Fourth Branch of Government,” the most powerful branch, the U.S. Intelligence Branch.
In addition to a global scraping of metadata, the NSA also collects the domestic private information of all Americans. This was the essential background story that NSA Contractor Edward Snowden broke several years ago. We now know this to be an accepted fact.
The United States internal political debate shifted from ‘
should they do this’ to ‘
Data breach reveals extensive government spying on journalists and political activists
A data breach of the Israeli spy company NSO Group has revealed that the company’s Pegasus software is being used by governments around the world to spy on political dissidents and journalists. The breach, obtained by French media non-profit Forbidden Stories and Amnesty International, included a list of 50,000 phone numbers targeted for infection with the Pegasus spyware.
Many identified targets of NSO’s software are prominent individuals, including hundreds of business executives, religious leaders, academics, union and government officials including several yet to be named cabinet ministers, presidents and prime ministers as well as employees of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs).