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 …
Edward Snowden, the renowned whistleblower, has warned against the trade of Pegasus and similar spyware and urged the governments to put a ban on it. If the trade between companies that make for-profit software -- which can become a surveillance weapon in the wrong hands, such as Israel’s NSO Group -- and the governments continues, we will soon see a …
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, …
Pegasus spyware-making Israeli company, NSO Group, has found itself in dire straits again. Amnesty International’s Security Lab carried out an in-depth forensic analysis of several mobile phones of human rights defenders and journalists from around the world to find out that Pegasus’s surveillance is not just a violation of user privacy, it also goes against human rights. The leaked database …
