Pegasus is the latest example of how vulnerable we all are to digital prying. The spyware was found on the phones of at least nine State Department officials who were either based in Uganda or involved in matters associated with the African country, Reuters and The New York Times reported in December. The US Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation, The Guardian said in February, after a whistleblower said NSO Group offered "bags of cash" for sensitive mobile phone data from a US tech firm, Mobileum. The US government is one of the most powerful forces unleashed against Pegasus - even though the CIA and FBI were Pegasus customers, as reported by The New York Times in January.
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Catalonia is seeking political independence from Spain, but Spanish police have cracked down on the independence movement. NSO Group Chief Executive Shalev Hulio told the New Yorker, which covered the hacks in depth, that Spain has legal procedures to ensure such use is legal, but Citizen Lab said Pegasus attacks targeted "members of the European Parliament, Catalan presidents, legislators, jurists," and some family members. The most recent revelations are that Pegasus infected the phones of at least 51 people in the Catalonia region of Spain, according to Citizen Lab, a Canadian security organization at the University of Toronto.
They appear to have been targets of secret surveillance by software that's intended to help governments pursue criminals and terrorists, and as the months go by, more and more Pegasus. Security researchers have revealed evidence of attempted or successful installations of Pegasus, software made by Israel-based cybersecurity company NSO Group, on 37 phones belonging to activists, rights workers, journalists and businesspeople.
It's a doozy of a case of digital spying technology.
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