According to The New York Times, Timchenko may be the first known instance of the Russian state machinery targeting a journalist with Pegasus, but she is not.
The APT36 hacking group, aka Transparent Tribe, has been observed using at least three Android apps that mimic YouTube to infect devices with their signature remote access trojan (RAT), CapraRAT.
Using a CSS involves creating a fake 2G cell tower and tricking the target phone into connecting. Every big carrier in the U.S. except T-Mobile has disabled.
California s Attorney General announced today that Google will pay $93 million to settle a privacy lawsuit alleging it violated the U.S. state s consumer protection laws.