Exporting the Tools of Apartheid
The Washington Post,
The Guardian, and
Haaretz revealed that Israeli intelligence firm NSO Group had licensed military-grade spyware known as Pegasus to a long list of authoritarian regimes. The report drew on a leaked list of more than 50,000 phone numbers; a close forensic analysis of some of the phones confirmed that they had been hacked by surveillance software capable of monitoring the targets’ movements, listening to their conversations, and accessing their private data.
The list included the phones of several people close to murdered journalist and Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi: His wife’s phone was targeted in the months before his gruesome murder, while his fiancée’s phone was hacked in the days after his death. The phone number of Princess Latifa bint Mohammed al-Maktoum was added to the list shortly after her escape from the United Arab Emirates and just days before she was captured on her way to Sri Lanka by Indian command
Israeli Defence Minister Gantz Heads to France to Give Update on Pegasus Scandal - Report
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Pegasus intel project brings Israel more trouble
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Israeli Defence Ministry Studying Probe into NSO Group
The Israeli Defence Ministry is studying the investigation into NSO Group
| 22 July 2021 1:38 AM GMT
NEW DELHI: The Israeli Defence Ministry is studying the investigation into NSO Group, Defence Minister Benny Gantz said on Tuesday after it was revealed that the Israeli cyber company has been selling spyware to foreign governments to target journalists and activists, Jerusalem Post reported. We are aware of recent publications regarding the use of systems developed by certain Israeli cyber companies, Gantz said on Tuesday at Cyber Week at Tel Aviv University, without naming the Herzliya-based company.
On Sunday, the Pegasus Project revealed that the spyware sold by NSO (Pegasus) had been identified on the phones of individuals targeted by the governments of Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Mexico, Morocco, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Hungary, India, the United Arab Emirates and more. The investigation was carried out by 17 media org