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Congress targets Centre over Pegasus case

New Delhi: The Congress on Sunday criticised the government over the recent US court ruling on Pegasus spyware, which revealed that 300 out of 1,400 targeted WhatsApp numbers belonged to Indians. Congress general secretary Randeep Surjewala called for the Supreme Court of India to reopen the Pegasus case and conduct a fresh inquiry based on the US judgment. In 2022, …

Congress Targeted Whatsapp

10 months, 1 week ago

Hard Code | Cyber mercenaries and nations playing with fire

Hindustan Times

For several years now, the murky world of cyber mercenaries has enabled staggering attacks on political leaders, civil liberties, private enterprise and institutions. The potential first became clear in 2019, when WhatsApp sued what was then a little-known Israeli company called NSO Group, for building a spyware called Pegasus, which at the time enabled the snooping on 1,400 people which …

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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 …

India Apple Alert Phones Reported Nso Spyware

1 year, 2 months ago

BEWARE! This 'Advanced' Spyware Can Steal Your Money And Record Your Calls

News 18

A new malware called SpyNote, which is proficient at hiding itself, is making rounds on the internet. According to the internet security company F-Secure, this fake app can steal sensitive user data—like banking information, and primarily targets Android phones. Per Amit Tambe, the company’s researcher, this spyware, SpyNote, spreads through ‘smishing,’ which involves sending infected SMS messages. How SpyNote Steals …

User Spynote

1 year, 2 months ago

How government agencies use commercial spyware to target opponents | Explained

The Hindu

The story so far: Between May and September, former Egyptian MP Ahmed Eltantawy was targeted with Cytrox’s Predator spyware sent via links on SMS and WhatsApp. While spyware may be used for commercial purposes like advertising, malicious spyware is used to profit from data stolen from a victim’s device. Commercial spyware, such as the Pegasus spyware from the NSO group, …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Press groups: Spyware again used against Mexican activists

Associated Press

MEXICO CITY — Press freedom groups said Tuesday the Mexican government apparently continued to use Pegasus spyware to infect telephones of human rights activists as recently as late 2022, despite a pledge by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to stop such spying. “So far in the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, at least three human rights activists and …

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1 year, 9 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, …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Europe’s Spyware Scandal Is a Global Wakeup Call

Slate

Multiple European governments are using advanced surveillance tools to spy on their own people, according to a damning new European Parliament report. “Some went even further and embedded spyware in a system deliberately designed for authoritarian rule.” The European Parliament launched this inquiry after the 2021 publication of the Pegasus Project, a spyware investigation led by 16 media outlets around …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Greece’s intelligence chief resigns amid spyware scandal

Associated Press

ATHENS, Greece — The head of Greece’s intelligence service and the general secretary of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ office have resigned amid a scandal involving the targeting of the head of an opposition party and a journalist with spyware. National Intelligence Service director Panagiotis Kontoleon and Grigoris Dimitriadis, general secretary of the prime minister’s office, submitted their resignations Friday, the …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Pegasus spyware targeted Thai democracy activists: Report

Al Jazeera

NGO investigation finds controversial malware on the phones of 30 activists and civil society leaders after they receive an Apple security warning. At least 30 Thai activists involved in pro-democracy protests were victims of Pegasus spyware during a government crackdown on dissent, according to an investigation by a group of internet watchdog organisations. Canadian group Citizen Lab and Thai NGOs …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Pegasus Row: Supreme Court Gives 4 More Weeks to Technical Panel to Submit Probe Report

News 18

The Supreme Court on Friday extended the time for submitting the report by the apex court-appointed technical and supervisory committees to look into the Pegasus row, saying 29 infected mobile phones are being examined for the spyware and the process should be over in four weeks. A bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana said the technical committee has …

2 years, 7 months ago

Spain detects Pegasus spyware on PM, defence minister’s phones

Al Jazeera

Authorities say the phones of the two top officials were tapped in an ‘illicit and external intervention’ last year. Spanish authorities have said that the mobile phones of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Minister of Defence Margarita Robles were tapped using Pegasus spyware in an “illicit and external” intervention. “There is no evidence that there was other tapping after those …

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2 years, 11 months ago

Pegasus Snooping- Counsel Of Bhima Koregaon Accused Writes To SC-Appointed Technical Committee Suspecting Hacking Of His Device

Live Law

A lawyer, who represented several persons implicated in the Bhima Koregaon Elgar Parishad case has written to the Technical Committee appointed by the Supreme Court to probe into the allegations of snooping through Pegasus, suspecting compromise of his mobile device by Pegasus Malware.Advocate Nihalsing B Rathod, a practicing lawyer based in Nagpur has argued that his phone was intercepted. A …

Court Phone Committee Supreme His Phone Whatsapp Device

2 years, 11 months ago

Poland admits purchase of advanced Israeli NSO spyware

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. Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of the country’s ruling conservative …

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2 years, 11 months ago

Pegasus Snooping : SC-Appointed Technical Committee Seeks Details From Persons Suspecting Hacking Of Their Devices

Live Law

Persons who suspect that their devices have been targeted by the Pegasus spyware can write to the Technical Committee constituted by the Supreme Court to investigate the allegations of snooping using the Pegasus spyware by the noon of January 7, 2022.The Committee issued a public notice in this regard today asking such persons, who feel that they are targets of …

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3 years, 1 month ago

U.S. adds Israeli maker of Pegasus spyware to ‘black list’

The Hindu

US authorities on Wednesday put the Israeli maker of the Pegasus spyware on the list of restricted companies, after determining the firm supplied software used to target officials and journalists. The company, NSO, was engulfed in controversy over reports that tens of thousands of human rights activists, journalists, politicians and business executives worldwide were listed as potential targets of its …

Israeli List

3 years, 1 month ago

Pegasus snooping row: SC to pronounce verdict on pleas seeking independent probe today

Firstpost

A bench comprising Chief Justice NV Ramana had reserved an order on 13 September, saying it only wanted to know whether or not the Centre used the Pegasus spyware through illegal methods to allegedly snoop on citizens The Supreme Court is scheduled to pronounce a verdict on Wednesday on a batch of pleas seeking an independent probe into the Pegasus …

Court Mehta Centre Nso Spyware Pegasus Independent Probe

3 years, 3 months ago

Pegasus row: SC to set up technical experts committee to inquire into matter, formal order next week

Firstpost

The observation assumes significance as the Centre had earlier offered to set up an expert panel on its own to look into the grievances of alleged snooping on phones New Delhi: In a significant development, the Supreme Court Thursday observed orally that it will set up a technical expert committee to inquire into the Pegasus snooping matter and pass an …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Israel’s Pegasus: Is your phone a ‘24-hour surveillance device’?

Al Jazeera

The Pegasus scandal is the latest episode in the dystopian science fiction thriller that we are presently living. Between June 2020 and February 2021, the iPhones of nine Bahraini activists – including two dissidents exiled in London and three members of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights – were hacked using the Pegasus spyware that was developed by NSO Group, …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Pegasus row: SC grants more time to Centre for filing response, fixes pleas for hearing on Sept 13

India TV News

The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted some more time to the Centre for filing its response to a batch of pleas seeking an independent probe into the alleged Pegasus snooping matter and fixed them for further hearing on September 13. As soon as as the matter came up for hearing before the bench, which also comprised justices Surya Kant and …

Centre More Time Sc Grants Filing Response

3 years, 4 months ago

Allegations of snooping serious if reports true, says Supreme Court on Pegasus

India Today

Allegations of snooping are serious if the reports regarding it are correct, the Supreme Court said on Thursday as it heard a batch of pleas seeking an independent probe into the Pegasus row. No doubt, the allegations are serious, if the reports are true,” the CJI observed and raised the issue of delay, saying the matter had come to light …

Supreme Court Cji Pegasus Snooping

3 years, 4 months ago

Pegasus | Hearing on petitions seeking probe on August 5

The Hindu

A Supreme Court Bench led by Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana is scheduled to hear on August 5 a petition filed by senior journalists N. Ram and Sashi Kumar 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 …

Supreme Court Petition

3 years, 4 months ago

Direct Centre To Disclose Use Of Pegasus Spyware : 5 Journalists On Potential Snoop List Move Supreme Court

Live Law

In a significant development in the Pegasus spyware controversy, five journalists who are reported to be in the potential list of snoop targets have filed writ petitions in the Supreme Court contending that the unauthorized use of surveillance by government agencies have violated their fundamental rights guaranteed under the Constitution.This is the first instance of persons approaching the. In a …

India Constitution Court Petitions Potential Writ List

3 years, 4 months ago

Israel's NSO blocks some government clients from using its spyware over misuse claims: Report

The Hindu

Israeli cybersecurity company NSO Group, which is at the centre of the Pegasus snooping scandal, has temporarily blocked several government clients around the world from using its spyware technology as the firm probes its alleged abuses, according to a US media report. The source, a company employee, did not name or quantify the government agencies — or their countries — …

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Congress targets Centre over Pegasus case

Hard Code | Cyber mercenaries and nations playing with fire

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

BEWARE! This 'Advanced' Spyware Can Steal Your Money And Record Your Calls

How government agencies use commercial spyware to target opponents | Explained

Press groups: Spyware again used against Mexican activists

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

Europe’s Spyware Scandal Is a Global Wakeup Call

Greece’s intelligence chief resigns amid spyware scandal

Pegasus spyware targeted Thai democracy activists: Report

Pegasus Row: Supreme Court Gives 4 More Weeks to Technical Panel to Submit Probe Report

Spain detects Pegasus spyware on PM, defence minister’s phones

Pegasus Snooping- Counsel Of Bhima Koregaon Accused Writes To SC-Appointed Technical Committee Suspecting Hacking Of His Device

Poland admits purchase of advanced Israeli NSO spyware

Pegasus Snooping : SC-Appointed Technical Committee Seeks Details From Persons Suspecting Hacking Of Their Devices

U.S. adds Israeli maker of Pegasus spyware to ‘black list’

Pegasus snooping row: SC to pronounce verdict on pleas seeking independent probe today

Pegasus row: SC to set up technical experts committee to inquire into matter, formal order next week

Israel’s Pegasus: Is your phone a ‘24-hour surveillance device’?

Pegasus row: SC grants more time to Centre for filing response, fixes pleas for hearing on Sept 13

Allegations of snooping serious if reports true, says Supreme Court on Pegasus

Pegasus | Hearing on petitions seeking probe on August 5

Direct Centre To Disclose Use Of Pegasus Spyware : 5 Journalists On Potential Snoop List Move Supreme Court

Israel's NSO blocks some government clients from using its spyware over misuse claims: Report