Israeli-made Pegasus cyberweapon used in hacking attempts on at least seven journalists and activists in EU
Israel’s NSO Group, the maker of Pegasus, says it sells its powerful spyware only for the purposes of preventing crime and terrorism.Israel’s NSO Group, the maker of Pegasus, says it sells its powerful spyware only for the purposes of preventing crime and terrorism.
When it is successfully deployed, Pegasus can hack into any phone, access photos and mobile phone calls, detect a person’s location, and activate a user’s recorder, turning the phone into a listening device. Two Belarusian members of civil society living in Warsaw also received Apple notifications on 31 October 2023. Opposition politician and activist Andrei Sannikov, who ran for the presidency of Belarus in 2010 and was arrested and held by the Belarusian KGB after the poll, had his phone infected on or about 7 September 2021. It was not discovered for two years, he said.
Three other journalists living in Riga also received Apple threat notifications: Evgeny Erlikh, an Israeli-Russian journalist; Evgeny Pavlov, a Latvian journalist, and Maria Epifanova, general director of Novaya Gazeta
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