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WhatsApp Allowed to Sue Spyware Maker NSO Group, Says Judge
WhatsApp received the all-clear from the U.S. Supreme Court to seek a lawsuit against Israel's NSO Group over allegations that the latter exploited a bug in the WhatsApp app to install its "Pegasus" spyware on 1,400 devices, including ones owned by journalists, human rights activists, and more (via Reuters). Pegasus is a suite of spyware...
Pegasus Spyware Hacked iPhones in Thailand, Say Canadian Researchers
Citizen Lab, a cyber research arm of the University of Toronto, on Sunday published a report detailing how Pegasus spyware was used to hack into iPhones belonging to pro-democracy protestors and activists in Thailand between October 2020 and November 2021. Pegasus is a mercenary spyware suite developed by Israeli surveillance and cyberintelligence company NSO Group....
Pegasus iPhone Spyware Infected Spanish Prime Minister’s Cellphone
The Spanish government on Monday announced during a press conference that the phones of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and Defence Minister Margarita Robles were both infected by the infamous Pegasus spyware last year — reports The Guardian. Developed by Israeli surveillance and cyberintelligence company NSO Group, Pegasus is capable of accessing, taking over, and extracting...
Spain Uses Pegasus Spyware to Target Catalan Official iPhones: Report
Catalonia's regional leader accused the Spanish government on Monday of spying on its citizens after a rights group said his phone and dozens more belonging to Catalan pro-independence figures had been infected with spyware used by sovereign states. A new investigation by The Citizen Lab has found that the Catalan president, Pere Aragones, was hacked...
Zero-Click iPhone Exploit Used by NSO Group Also Abused by Second Surveillance Firm
A new report says that an NSO Group rival had also exploited an iPhone flaw that allowed its customers to remotely hack smartphones. Last year, Apple sued Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group over its use of zero-click iPhone exploits to help bad actors spy on iPhone users. Since then, many political activists have been notified...
How Canada’s Citizen Lab is Taking Down NSO Group’s Spyware
An extensive article over at Haaretz has highlighted how Citizen Lab, a University of Toronto-based research institute, has put the brakes on Israeli-based NSO Group’s spyware and other malicious activities. The Citizen Lab has mapped the phones of hundreds of journalists, scientists, and corruption researchers in over 45 countries, and NSO’s Pegasus software has been found...
Google Project Zero Researchers Explain Pegasus Zero-Click iMessage Exploit
Google has explained how surveillance company NSO Group developed an exploit that would allow users of its software to gain access to an iPhone and install spyware – without a target ever even clicking a link. Google's Project Zero team yesterday published a technical analysis of the FORCEDENTRY exploit that was used by NSO Group to...
NSO Group’s Spyware Used to Hack U.S. State Department iPhones
Citing four people familiar with the matter, an exclusive Reuters report is claiming that spyware developed by Israel-based NSO Group was used to hack the iPhones of at least nine U.S. State Department employees. Carried out by an unknown assailant, the hacks were carried out over the past few months and targeted the officials either based in...
Here’s How Apple Will Contact Users Targeted by State-Sponsored Spyware
Yesterday, Apple filed a lawsuit against Israel’s NSO Group over alleged surveillance and targeting of Apple users and now, the company has revealed that it is notifying the "small number of users" who have been targeted by the Pegasus spyware (via MacRumors). Apple has announced that it will continue to notify users who have been...
New York Times Journalist Reportedly Hacked by Pegasus Malware
The iPhone of New York Times journalist Ben Hubbard was repeatedly hacked with Israeli company NSO Group's Pegasus spyware tool over a three-year period stretching between June 2018 to June 2021, resulting in infections twice in July 2020 and June 2021. The University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, which publicized the findings on Sunday, said the "targeting took...
Apple Should Do More to Protect iPhone Users vs Spyware: Researchers
An international group of researchers and journalists made up of individuals from Amnesty International, Forbidden Stories, and over a dozen other organizations, known collectively as the Pegasus Project, recently published a report with forensic evidence of the NSO Group's notorious Pegasus spyware infecting (or targeting) at least 37 iOS and Android devices — reports Wired. Pegasus...
NSO Group CEO Claims Facebook Wanted its Spyware to Monitor Users
In a recent court filing amid an ongoing lawsuit, CEO of controversial Israeli software company NSO Group has claimed that his firm was approached by Facebook representatives to try and buy a tool that could help the social networking giant better monitor its users, Vice reports. NSO CEO Shalev Hulio notes in his declaration that his...