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In mid-2020, a mobile phone belonging to an Al Jazeera Arabic investigative team was hacked. Over the next few months, reporter Tamer Almisshal and the Canadian research group Citizen Lab investigated Pegasus, the sophisticated spyware used.
Pegasus is manufactured by an Israeli technology company called the NSO Group and is among the most advanced spyware in the world. It can access and infiltrate a smartphone without the owner clicking a link, opening an email or even answering their phone - meaning it can go undetected.
This investigation exposes how Pegasus works, how governments like Saudi Arabia and the UAE have bought the hugely expensive spyware and how it has been used beyond the stated intentions of the NSO Group of “developing technology to prevent and investigate terror and crime” - including to target journalists.
About Pegasus:
Pegasus?is?spyware?that can be installed on devices running some versions of?iOS,?Apple's mobile operating system, as well on devices running?Android. It was developed by the?Israeli?cyberarms firm?NSO Group.
Discovered in August 2016 after a failed attempt at installing it on an?iPhone?belonging to a?human rights activist, an investigation revealed details about the spyware, its abilities, and the?security vulnerabilities?it exploited. Pegasus is capable of?reading text messages,?tracking calls, collecting passwords,?mobile phone tracking, accessing the target device's microphone(s) and video camera(s),[1]?and gathering information from apps.
Apple released version?9.3.5?of its iOS software to fix the vulnerabilities. News of the spyware caused significant media coverage. It was called the "most sophisticated" smartphone attack ever, and became the first time in iPhone history when a malicious remote?jailbreak?exploit had been detected. The company that created the spyware, NSO Group, stated that they provide "authorized governments with technology that helps them combat terror and crime".[2]
On 23 August 2020, according to intelligence obtained by the Israeli newspaper?Haaretz, the?NSO Group?was accused of selling Pegasus spyware software for hundreds of millions of dollars to the?United Arab Emirates?and other?Gulf States, for the purpose of state surveillance against anti-regime activists, journalists and political leaders from rival nations.[3]
Al Jazeera?investigation show?The Tip of the Iceberg,?Spy partners, on 20 December 2020, showed exclusive footage about "Pegasus", and its penetration into the phones of media professionals and activists, used by?Israel?to eavesdrop on its opponents and even its allies.[4][5]
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3 年Israeli spyware company NSO Group placed on US blacklist Decision against company at heart of Pegasus project reflects deep concern about impact of spyware on US national security interests https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/03/nso-group-pegasus-spyware-us-blacklist
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3 年U.S. Lawmakers Demand Action After Spyware Allegations Against Israeli NSO Lawmakers call for investigation, regulation of spyware industry after reports of Israeli company NSO's leasing of its tools to authoritarian regimes around the world WASHINGTON – U.S. lawmakers are growing increasingly alarmed by reports that the Israeli firm NSO Group leased military-grade spyware to authoritarian regimes around the world, who allegedly used it to hack the phones of politicians, journalists, human rights activists and business executives. Rep. Tom Malinowski, who has been at the forefront of demands that Saudi Arabia be held accountable over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, told Haaretz that he is considering legislation aimed at regulating the private spyware industry. “I've been following this for a while, so I'm not at all surprised that the reporting has uncovered evidence of what any rational person would have assumed to be true given the NSO Group’s client list and potential uses of sensitive technology,” the New Jersey Democrat said. “I’m glad it’s getting the attention it deserves because this is an industry that is currently completely unregulated — which is a scandal in itself. This kind of sensitive hacking and surveillance technology should not be sold by private companies to the highest bidder on the open market,” Malinowski added. “The problem goes well beyond one company. There’s an industry that has been created to meet a demand for this technology and it’s enabled by the lack of regulation. What they are doing is technically legal; the point is it should not be,” he noted. Malinowski, who serves on the House Foreign Affairs and Homeland Security Committees, said NSO Group needs to come clean following the company's firm rejection of the revelations. “The categorical denials, combined with a refusal to provide any information about who their clients are, should be unacceptable to the U.S. government and other governments seeking to prevent the proliferation of this technology,” he said, adding that “their denials suggest either unbelievable credulity or arrogant dishonesty. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-u-s-lawmakers-demand-action-after-spyware-allegations-against-israel-s-nso-1.10023611
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