Pegasus is a highly sophisticated and controversial spyware tool developed by the Israeli cybersecurity firm NSO Group. Pegasus is designed to infiltrate and infect mobile devices, including smartphones, and it allows the attacker to remotely monitor and collect a wide range of information from the compromised device. This information can include text messages, call logs, emails, GPS location data, and more. It can also be used to activate the device’s microphone and camera for audio and video surveillance.

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    31 year ago

    a person of interest

    Thanks for the reminder.

    article:

    journalists, opposition politicians, and activists

    wikipedia: pretty much anybody of interests of the people with the ability to acquire the service

    journalists, lawyers, political dissidents, and human rights activists

    scholars, bureaucrats (India)

    politicians: head of stead (Iraq), mayors (Israel), associates (Israel), politicians (Israel), son of prime-minister (Israel), presidential candidate and associates (Mexico), prime minister (Morocco), King (Morocco)

    government employees (Israel), government officials (Israel), ex government officials (Israel), military officials (Morocco)

    employees of government-owned companies (Israel),

    suspects (Israel), drug cartels (Mexico), criminal (Netherlands)

    civil society members

    heads of corporations (Israel)

    Panama: foreign spying, including for spying on political opponents, magistrates, union leaders, and business competitors, with Martinelli allegedly going so far as to order the surveillance of his mistress using Pegasus.[5]

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      31 year ago

      Yup, the rabbit hole is quite deep. That’s only the people we know to have been targeted by this version Pegasus, I’m sure the dark figure is much higher.