Rulers, WHO chief, Telegram founder on Pegasus list
3 years, 5 months ago

Rulers, WHO chief, Telegram founder on Pegasus list

The Hindu  

Telephone numbers linked to 10 Prime Ministers, three Presidents and a King appeared on the list of potential targets for spying by Israeli company NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, according to reports. The numbers affiliated with a former staffer of Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, World Health Organization Director General, and Pavel Durov, the Russian tech billionaire who founded Telegram messaging app, are also on the list of numbers selected by NSO’s clients. The numbers for King Mohammed VI, Mr. Tedros’s staffer and former Italian Prime Minister were also found in that group. Pakistan Prime Minister Khan’s numbers appeared in a group dominated by Indian targets, the Post reported.

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‘Officers told me to be careful...’: Rahul Gandhi on Pegasus issue
1 year, 10 months ago

‘Officers told me to be careful...’: Rahul Gandhi on Pegasus issue

Live Mint  

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has once again raked up the Pegasus snooping issue, saying that a large number of politicians including him had the Israeli spyware software on their phones. Journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, SNM Abdi, Prem Shankar Jha, Rupesh Kumar Singh, and Ipsa Shatakshi, who are reported to be on the potential list of snoop targets of Pegasus spyware, …

Powerful ‘Pegasus’ spyware found on Downing Street phone, researchers claim
2 years, 8 months ago

Powerful ‘Pegasus’ spyware found on Downing Street phone, researchers claim

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The researchers said they had identified “multiple suspected instances of Pegasus spyware infections” on devices …

Pegasus used to target El Salvador activists, journalists: Report
2 years, 11 months ago

Pegasus used to target El Salvador activists, journalists: Report

Al Jazeera  

Citizen Lab watchdog says Israeli NSO Group’s spyware used by operator working in country since early 2020. The University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab said on Wednesday it had identified an operator of the spyware working exclusively in El Salvador and targeting journalists and activists, many of whom were investigating alleged state corruption. While the researchers could not conclusively determine the …

Mohan Guruswamy | Who’s behind Pegasus… and why it’s no big deal
3 years, 5 months ago

Mohan Guruswamy | Who’s behind Pegasus… and why it’s no big deal

Deccan Chronicle  

Big Brother is Listening. Government intelligence and investigative agencies routinely tap telephones as it’s their job to keep their masters well informed, particularly when the masters have a taste for low level gossip grade information. To get a good idea of who bought Pegasus one needs to just track new expenditures by government offices like the PMO. The messages that …

Pegasus row: SC to hear plea of journalists N Ram, Sashi Kumar next week
3 years, 5 months ago

Pegasus row: SC to hear plea of journalists N Ram, Sashi Kumar next week

India TV News  

The Supreme Court will next week hear a plea by senior journalists N Ram and Sashi Kumar seeking an independent probe by a sitting or a retired judge into the Pegasus snooping matter. An international media consortium has reported that over 300 verified Indian mobile phone numbers were on a list of potential targets for surveillance using Israeli firm NSO's …

Senior journalists N. Ram, Sashi Kumar move Supreme Court for probe into Pegasus snooping allegations
3 years, 5 months ago

Senior journalists N. Ram, Sashi Kumar move Supreme Court for probe into Pegasus snooping allegations

The Hindu  

Senior journalists N. Ram and Sashi Kumar have moved the Supreme Court for an independent probe headed by a former or sitting top court judge into the mass surveillance of over 142 potential “targets”, including journalists, lawyers, ministers, Opposition politicians, constitutional functionaries and civil society activists, using military-grade Israeli spyware Pegasus. Explained | Pegasus and the laws on surveillance in …

PM Modi should call all-party meet on Pegasus, says Mamata Banerjee, seeks SC-monitored probe
3 years, 5 months ago

PM Modi should call all-party meet on Pegasus, says Mamata Banerjee, seeks SC-monitored probe

India Today  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi should call an all-party meeting to discuss the Pegasus snooping scandal, Mamata Banerjee said on Tuesday. READ: Holding her own umbrella, here's what Mamata said about Modi meet In West Bengal, the state government has formed a committee to probe the Pegasus snooping scandal. A probe was also ordered into the Pegasus snooping scandal by prosecutors …

Dalai Lama’s close aides targeted on Pegasus spyware list
3 years, 5 months ago

Dalai Lama’s close aides targeted on Pegasus spyware list

The Hindu  

Several of the top India-based aides to the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, figure on the list of potential targets for spying using the Pegasus spyware, according to a report on Thursday. The phone numbers of the Dalai Lama’s aides were among the list of 50,000 numbers accessed by Forbidden Stories and Amnesty International and shared with 17 media …

Israel appoints commission to review NSO
3 years, 5 months ago

Israel appoints commission to review NSO

The Hindu  

Israel has established a commission to review allegations that the NSO Group’s controversial Pegasus phone surveillance software was misused, the head of Parliament’s Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee said on Thursday. “The defence establishment appointed a review commission made up of a number of groups,” lawmaker Ram Ben Barak said. “When they finish their review, we’ll demand to see the …

Telegram founder Pavel Durov says he was aware of being Pegasus snooping target since 2018
3 years, 5 months ago

Telegram founder Pavel Durov says he was aware of being Pegasus snooping target since 2018

India Today  

Telegram founder Pavel Durov is not worried that his name is on the list of entities that were targeted through Pegasus spyware. In a lengthy post, Durov said that he knew that one of his phone numbers was among the targets of surveillance tools such as Pegasus since at least 2018. An explosive investigation by Amnesty International, reviewed by a …

Pegasus surveillance: PSG boss al-Khelaifi’s numbers ‘targeted’
3 years, 5 months ago

Pegasus surveillance: PSG boss al-Khelaifi’s numbers ‘targeted’

Al Jazeera  

Two mobile numbers of Nasser al-Khelaifi appeared on the leaked list of 50,000 numbers of potential Pegasus spyware targets, Le Monde reports. Phone numbers belonging to Nasser al-Khelaifi, the Qatari president of football club Paris Saint Germain and beIN Sports chief executive, were on the list of numbers that were potentially targeted with Pegasus spyware, French daily Le Monde has …

Pegasus spyware: Khattar questions Amnesty International’s credibility
3 years, 5 months ago

Pegasus spyware: Khattar questions Amnesty International’s credibility

Hindustan Times  

Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Wednesday raised questions about the credibility of Amnesty International, an international human rights organisation, that conducted forensic examination of mobile devices to detect Pegasus spyware. “Many allies of the Congress including Sitaram Yechury, Jayalalitha, Chandrababu Naidu, and Mamata Banerjee have complained that their phones were tapped during the UPA rule,” Khattar added. The …

Morocco denies using spyware to target French officials
3 years, 5 months ago

Morocco denies using spyware to target French officials

The Hindu  

Morocco's government has denied reports that the country's security forces may have used spyware made by Israel's NSO Group to eavesdrop on the cellphones of France's President and other public figures. In a statement late Tuesday, the Moroccan government lashed out at a global media consortium investigating the suspected widespread use of NSO's Pegasus spyware to target journalists, human rights …

Pegasus: France opens spyware probe with Macron identified as target
3 years, 5 months ago

Pegasus: France opens spyware probe with Macron identified as target

The Hindu  

The Paris prosecutor's office opened an investigation on July 20 into the suspected widespread use of spyware, known as Pegasus. French newspaper Le Monde also reported on July 20 that the cellphones of Macron and 15 members of the French government may have been among potential targets of surveillance by the Pegasus software in 2019. An investigation published on July …

Emmanuel Macron, Imran Khan among 14 heads of states on potential spyware list
3 years, 5 months ago

Emmanuel Macron, Imran Khan among 14 heads of states on potential spyware list

Firstpost  

Amnesty International also released a forensic analysis of the alleged targeting that showed Amazon Web Services was hosting NSO infrastructure Boston: French President Emmanuel Macron leads a list of 14 current or former heads of state who may have been targeted for hacking by clients of the notorious Israeli spyware firm NSO Group, Amnesty International said Tuesday. Among potential targets …

Macron among 14 heads of states on potential spyware list
3 years, 5 months ago

Macron among 14 heads of states on potential spyware list

Associated Press  

BOSTON — French President Emmanuel Macron leads a list of 14 current or former heads of state who may have been targeted for hacking by clients of the notorious Israeli spyware firm NSO Group, Amnesty International said Tuesday. Among potential targets found on a list of 50,000 phone numbers leaked to Amnesty and the Paris-based journalism nonprofit Forbidden Stories include …

Macron among 14 heads of states on potential spyware list
3 years, 5 months ago

Macron among 14 heads of states on potential spyware list

ABP News  

Boston, Jul 21 : French President Emmanuel Macron leads a list of 14 current or former heads of state who may have been targeted for hacking by clients of the notorious Israeli spyware firm NSO Group, Amnesty International has said. Among potential targets found on a list of 50,000 phone numbers leaked to Amnesty and the Paris-based journalism nonprofit Forbidden …

Emmanuel Macron’s phone ‘on list of 50,000 possible targets’ in Pegasus spyware case
3 years, 5 months ago

Emmanuel Macron’s phone ‘on list of 50,000 possible targets’ in Pegasus spyware case

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy French president Emmanuel Macron and …

Spy in hand: On Pegasus spyware issue
3 years, 5 months ago

Spy in hand: On Pegasus spyware issue

The Hindu  

At least a 1,000 Indian phone numbers are in a list of potential targets of surveillance using the Pegasus spyware sold by Israeli company the NSO Group to “vetted governments” with the approval of the Israeli government. The cohort of people who were potential targets — journalists, politicians, probably a Supreme Court judge and a former Election Commissioner — does …

Pegasus: Amnesty releases new tool to check whether invasive spyware is secretly installed on a phone
3 years, 5 months ago

Pegasus: Amnesty releases new tool to check whether invasive spyware is secretly installed on a phone

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Amnesty International has released a toolkit to help people find out if their …

The Pegasus leak: What you need to know right now
3 years, 5 months ago

The Pegasus leak: What you need to know right now

Firstpost  

Pegasus is a spyware suite sold by Israeli company NSO Group to “vetted government clients”. These numbers are allegedly a “target list” of phones hacked/to be hacked by the Pegasus spyware product sold by Israel’s NSO Group. The NSO Group claims to sell the Pegasus suite only to “vetted governments” and not private entities, which suggests that the target list …

Pegasus snooping: Pakistan probes whether PM Khan’s phone hacked
3 years, 5 months ago

Pegasus snooping: Pakistan probes whether PM Khan’s phone hacked

Al Jazeera  

Information minister says government probing whether premier’s phone was surveilled, after revelations from Pegasus Project show number in list. Pakistan’s government says it is investigating whether a mobile phone number once used by Prime Minister Imran Khan was part of a surveillance hacking attempt using the Pegasus software, the information minister says. Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry said Pakistan was investigating …

France’s Macron among potential Pegasus spyware targets: Report
3 years, 5 months ago

France’s Macron among potential Pegasus spyware targets: Report

Al Jazeera  

Phone number of French president was identified as potential target for surveillance on behalf of Morocco, report says. The phone of French President Emmanuel Macron was targeted for potential surveillance on behalf of Morocco in the Pegasus spyware case, French newspaper Le Monde reported on Tuesday. Le Monde said that, according to sources, one of Macron’s phone numbers, which he …

Rahul Gandhi, IT minister Vaishnaw, ex-EC in new Pegasus list, say reports
3 years, 5 months ago

Rahul Gandhi, IT minister Vaishnaw, ex-EC in new Pegasus list, say reports

Hindustan Times  

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, former election commissioner Ashok Lavasa and two sitting Union ministers were among prominent people potentially targeted by Israeli phone hacking software, an international investigative consortium reported on Monday, sparking a political storm on the first day of Parliament’s Monsoon Session. The consortium published on Sunday that 38 Indian journalists, including three current Hindustan Times staffers and …

Pegasus project: Leaked list reveals innocent targets of spyware used by authoritarian governments
3 years, 5 months ago

Pegasus project: Leaked list reveals innocent targets of spyware used by authoritarian governments

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. An investigation led by the Paris-based nonprofit Forbidden Stories …

Several Delhi-based diplomats, staff of international NGOs on Pegasus list
3 years, 5 months ago

Several Delhi-based diplomats, staff of international NGOs on Pegasus list

The Hindu  

While reports of Indian politicians and journalists being targets of surveillance operations carried out with the help of Pegasus spyware took centre-stage on Monday, French newspaper Le Monde reported that several Delhi-based diplomats were also on the list of potential targets for phone hacking from 2017-2021, along with a phone associated with Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan. U.S.-based Washington Post, …

Over The Top Allegations To Malign Indian Democracy: Centre On Reports About Using Pegasus Spyware For Snooping Journalists
3 years, 5 months ago

Over The Top Allegations To Malign Indian Democracy: Centre On Reports About Using Pegasus Spyware For Snooping Journalists

Live Law  

The Central Government on Monday denied all 'over the top allegations' of using Pegasus Spyware to snoop on opposition leaders, journalists, etc.The newly appointed IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnav, while making a statement in this regard in Lok Sabha today, said,"The basis of this report is that there is consortium which has got access to leaked database of 50,000 phone numbers. …

We know what he's been reading: Rahul Gandhi on Pegasus row
3 years, 5 months ago

We know what he's been reading: Rahul Gandhi on Pegasus row

India Today  

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has jumped into the debate over the Pegasus spyware issue. Using the hashtag Pegasus, the former Congress president said in a tweet, "We know what he’s been reading- everything on your phone." Ahead of the Monsoon Session of Parliament that begins on Monday, several Opposition leaders gave notices seeking discussion on Pegasus spyware that was reportedly …

Pegasus spyware used to ‘snoop’ on Indian journalists, activists
3 years, 5 months ago

Pegasus spyware used to ‘snoop’ on Indian journalists, activists

The Hindu  

Telephone numbers of some 40 Indian journalists figure in a “leaked list of potential targets for surveillance” and forensic tests were said to have “confirmed that some of them were successfully snooped upon by an unidentified agency using Pegasus softwareThe Wire, an independent news website, reported on Sunday night. Indian ministers, government officials and opposition leaders also figure in the …

Phones of Politicians, Journalists ‘Hacked Using Pegasus’; Govt Denies Claim, Says ‘No Concrete Truth’
3 years, 5 months ago

Phones of Politicians, Journalists ‘Hacked Using Pegasus’; Govt Denies Claim, Says ‘No Concrete Truth’

News 18  

The Pegasus spyware was used to hack phones of Indian politicians, journalists and activists, said a report quoting an investigation by a group of 17 global media organisations, a claim that was denied by the central government. The government said in its response that “no unauthorised interception” has taken place and that the report is not only “bereft of facts” …

Israeli spyware is found on cellphones of journalists
3 years, 5 months ago

Israeli spyware is found on cellphones of journalists

Daily Mail  

Activists, journalists and politicians around the world have been spied on using cellphone malware developed by a private Israeli firm, it emerged Sunday, igniting fears of widespread privacy and rights abuses. The use of the software, called Pegasus and developed by Israel's NSO group, was exposed in a data leak containing 50,000 phone numbers that belong to people targeted by …

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