Politicians, journalists, tycoons spied on
July 20, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Human rights activists, journalists and lawyers across the world have been targeted by authoritarian governments using hacking software sold by the Israeli surveillance company NSO Group, according to an investigation into a massive data leak.
The Indian government s intelligence tentacles used the phone malware to spy on 50,000 phones including those of Prime Minister Imran Khan, cabinet ministers, top officials and diplomats besides against their own dissidents, activists, journalists, lawyers and politicians in several countries.
Besides, the NSO Group and its Pegasus malware capable of switching on a phone’s camera or microphone and harvesting its data have been in the headlines since 2016, when researchers accused it of helping spy on a dissident in the United Arab Emirates. They include one linked to a murdered Mexican journalist and family members of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi besi
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