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Pegasus Spyware found on Indian journalists’ phones after Apple alert: Amnesty International
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Pegasus Spyware found on Indian journalists’ phones after Apple alert: Amnesty International

The Hindu  

The Wire news website’s founder editor, Siddharth Varadarajan, and another journalist in India were targeted with Pegasus spyware this year, the nonprofit Amnesty International’s Security Lab was able to determine after testing their devices, it announced on Thursday. The journalists had received an alert from Apple that they were being targeted by “state- Separately, TheWashington Post reported that after the …

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Victim of private spyware warns it can be used against US
2 years, 4 months ago

Victim of private spyware warns it can be used against US

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Months after her father was lured back to Rwanda under false pretenses and jailed, Carine Kanimba discovered her own phone had been hacked using private spyware. But the FBI has acknowledged buying a license for Pegasus for what it said was “product testing and evaluation only.” While spyware companies make huge profits in the Middle East and Europe, …

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Apple to release new ‘Lockdown Mode’ as it battles spyware firms
2 years, 5 months ago

Apple to release new ‘Lockdown Mode’ as it battles spyware firms

The Hindu  

Apple Inc on Wednesday said it plans to release a new feature called "Lockdown Mode" this fall that aims to add a new layer of protection for human rights advocates, political dissidents and other targets of sophisticated hacking attacks. "Lockdown Mode" will come to Apple's iPhones, iPads and Macs this fall and turning it on will block most attachments sent …

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Pegasus: What you need to know about Israeli spyware
2 years, 10 months ago

Pegasus: What you need to know about Israeli spyware

Al Jazeera  

The Israeli company has been linked to governments exploiting its technology to spy on journalists, activists and politicians. Pegasus, spyware made by the Israeli technology company NSO Group, is making headlines again after it was reported that the Israeli police used it for spying on dozens of its own citizens – including senior government officials and protesters rallying up against …

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FBI confirms it bought spyware from Israel’s NSO Group
2 years, 10 months ago

FBI confirms it bought spyware from Israel’s NSO Group

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The FBI has confirmed purchasing NSO Group’s powerful spyware tool Pegasus, whose chronic abuse to surveil journalists, dissidents and human rights activists has long been established. “Spending millions of dollars to line the pockets of a company that is widely known to serially facilitate widespread human rights abuses, possible criminal acts, and operations that threaten the U.S.’s own …

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HRW says staffer was targeted with Israeli-made Pegasus spyware
2 years, 10 months ago

HRW says staffer was targeted with Israeli-made Pegasus spyware

Al Jazeera  

The Israeli NSO Group’s technology has been used by governments to target political opponents, activists and journalists. Human Rights Watch says one of its senior staff members was targeted five times last year with Pegasus, a spyware made by the Israeli company NSO Group. The NSO Group, which does not disclose its client list, has been mired in controversy in …

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AP Source: NSO Group spyware used to hack State employees
3 years ago

AP Source: NSO Group spyware used to hack State employees

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The phones of 11 U.S. State Department employees were hacked with spyware from Israel’s NSO Group, the world’s most infamous hacker-for-hire company, a person familiar with the matter said Friday. “We have been acutely concerned that commercial spyware like NSO Group software poses a serious counterintelligence and security risk to U.S. personnel,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki …

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Report: NSO spyware found on 6 Palestinian activists’ phones
3 years, 1 month ago

Report: NSO spyware found on 6 Palestinian activists’ phones

Associated Press  

JERUSALEM — Security researchers disclosed Monday that spyware from the notorious Israeli hacker-for-hire company NSO Group was detected on the cellphones of six Palestinian human rights activists, half affiliated with groups that Israel’s defense minister controversially claimed were involved in terrorism. Asked about the allegations its software was used against the Palestinian activists, NSO Group said in a statement that …

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6 Palestinian rights activists hacked by NSO spyware: Report
3 years, 1 month ago

6 Palestinian rights activists hacked by NSO spyware: Report

Hindustan Times  

Security researchers disclosed Monday that spyware from the notorious Israeli hacker-for-hire company NSO Group was detected on the cellphones of six Palestinian human rights activists, half affiliated with groups that Israel’s defense minister controversially claimed were involved in terrorism. The forensic findings, independently confirmed by security researchers from Amnesty International and the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab in a joint …

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US Blacklists Israel's NSO Group Over Pegasus Spyware
3 years, 1 month ago

US Blacklists Israel's NSO Group Over Pegasus Spyware

News 18  

The Biden administration announced Wednesday it is putting new export limits on Israel’s NSO Group, the worlds most infamous hacker-for-hire company, saying its tools have been used to conduct transnational repression. The U.S. Commerce Department said NSO Group and three other firms are being added to the entity list, which limits their access to U.S. components and technology by requiring …

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US sanctions Israeli firm NSO Group over spyware
3 years, 1 month ago

US sanctions Israeli firm NSO Group over spyware

Al Jazeera  

Biden administration says Israeli company’s spyware enables ‘repression’ and is used to target journalists and activists. The administration of US President Joe Biden has blacklisted Israeli firm NSO Group, accusing the technology company of developing and supplying spyware to foreign governments “that used these tools to maliciously” target a range of actors, including journalists and activists. ‘Strong message’ John Scott-Railton, …

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Future Tense Newsletter: We Need a Muppet Version of Frankenstein
54 years, 11 months ago

Future Tense Newsletter: We Need a Muppet Version of Frankenstein

Slate  

Sign up to receive the Future Tense newsletter every other Saturday. Both remained quite true to the original texts, particularly the latter: The Independent quite rightly called A Muppet Christmas Carol “the definitive adaptation of the Dickens classic—and perhaps the greatest Christmas movie of its decade.” My middle-school teacher begged us to watch A Muppet Christmas Carol if we were …

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There is an urgent need for a moratorium on sale of spy tech
3 years, 3 months ago

There is an urgent need for a moratorium on sale of spy tech

Al Jazeera  

In July 2021, an investigation by a consortium of media outlets revealed that several governments used phone malware supplied by an Israeli firm to spy on journalists, activists, opposition figures and heads of state. The group’s first and so far only transparency report released in June 2021 states: “The Defense Export Controls Agency of the Israeli Ministry of Defense strictly …

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No transaction with NSO Group, says defence ministry in Parliament amid Pegasus controversy
3 years, 4 months ago

No transaction with NSO Group, says defence ministry in Parliament amid Pegasus controversy

India Today  

The Ministry of Defence has informed Parliament that it has not carried out any transaction with Israel-based company NSO Group Technologies. In a written reply to a question from Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament V Sivadasan of the Communist Party of India, Minister of State Ajay Bhatt stated on Monday, “Ministry of Defence has not had any transaction with NSO …

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NSO blocks several govt clients amid snooping row, says report
3 years, 4 months ago

NSO blocks several govt clients amid snooping row, says report

Hindustan Times  

Israeli cyber-security firm NSO Group, at the centre of a global controversy over misuse of its Pegasus spyware to hack phones of journalists and politicians, has temporarily blocked several government clients from using its technology, according to a media report. The move came a day after Israeli authorities conducted an inspection of NSO Group’s office followings reports by an international …

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NSO Group | The spy who came in for the phone
3 years, 4 months ago

NSO Group | The spy who came in for the phone

The Hindu  

On October 1, 2018, a day before Jamal Khashoggi was murdered and dismembered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Citizen Lab, a University of Toronto-based project that investigates cyber espionage against civil society, released a report titled, “The Kingdom came to Canada”. Asked about the reports that he had travelled to Saudi Arabia to sell Pegasus for $55 million, NSO …

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Millions sleep well at night, walk safely on streets due to technologies like Pegasus: NSO
3 years, 5 months ago

Millions sleep well at night, walk safely on streets due to technologies like Pegasus: NSO

India Today  

Amidst the raging controversy over its surveillance software Pegasus, Israeli cybersecurity company NSO Group has defended itself by saying that millions of people around the world sleep well at night and walk in the streets safely due to such technologies available with intelligence and law enforcement agencies. Read: All you wanted to know about Pegasus but didn’t know who to …

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Will Probe for Credible Proof, Shut Down If Necessary: NSO Group Responds to Pegasus Row
3 years, 5 months ago

Will Probe for Credible Proof, Shut Down If Necessary: NSO Group Responds to Pegasus Row

News 18  

Israeli surveillance company NSO Group, which sells Pegasus spyware worldwide in a fresh statement on Wednesday said the list of Indian phone numbers reported as potential surveillance targets for hacking by the government is “not related to the NSO group.” The company has grabbed headlines after an investigative report found a list of more 50,000 phone numbers in which more …

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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 …

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UN rights chief alarmed by reported use of powerful spyware
3 years, 5 months ago

UN rights chief alarmed by reported use of powerful spyware

Associated Press  

BERLIN — The United Nations’ human rights chief voiced alarm Monday over the reported use of military-grade malware from Israel-based NSO Group to spy on journalists, human rights activists and political dissidents. “Revelations regarding the apparent widespread use of the Pegasus software to spy on journalists, human rights defenders, politicians and others in a variety of countries are extremely alarming, …

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Pegasus: Attempt to malign Indian democracy, says IT minister
3 years, 5 months ago

Pegasus: Attempt to malign Indian democracy, says IT minister

India Today  

The government has dismissed the allegation that Opposition leaders, journalists and activists were targeted using Pegasus spyware in a snooping attempt. Ashwini Vaishnaw referred to reports published on a news portal on Sunday saying, “It can't be a mere coincidence that all this report leaked by a portal on the eve of the Monsoon Session.” He said the data shared …

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