Security researchers believe data was probably stolen from the UK prime minister’s office in a cyberattack launched from the United Arab Emirates using Pegasus software.
The UK prime minister’s office was targeted multiple times by spyware sold legally to states around the world, claim security experts. The Pegasus software, created by the Israeli firm NSO Group, allows security services to listen in to the microphone on a compromised smartphone, read messages and access sensitive data.
The Citizen Lab, a research group at the University of Toronto in Canada that has worked for years to examine the use of spyware such as Pegasus, claims that it warned the UK government of attacks in 2020 and 2021. The group says it has found evidence for multiple suspected Pegasus infections of devices used by the prime minister’s office and what was then the Foreign and Commonwealth Office , now the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office . It claims that the spyware was being deployed against the FCO from the United Arab Emirates, India, Cyprus and Jordan, while the attacks against 10 Downing Street originated in the UAE.
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