Amnesty International has found evidence of journalists in India being targeted with Pegasus spyware. The discovery comes amid what the rights group claims is a “targeted crackdown on freedom of expression.”
The website of Israeli company NSO Group which features Pegasus spyware on a smartphone Spyware produced and sold by the Israeli company NSO Group has been found on the phones of journalists, activists and politicians High-profile journalists in India have been targeted with the invasive spyware Pegasus, according to a report published by Amnesty International on Thursday.
The civil rights watchdog carried out forensic investigations on the iPhones belonging to Siddharth Varadarajan, the founding editor of The Wire, and Anand Mangnale, the South Asia editor of The Organized Crime and Corruption Report Project (OCCRP).
“Our latest findings show that increasingly, journalists in India face the threat of unlawful surveillance simply for doing their jobs, alongside other tools of repression including imprisonment under draconian laws, smear campaigns, harassment, and intimidation,” Donncha O Cearbhaill, the head of Amnesty’s Security Lab, said.
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Ah yes, India the so-called largest “democracy” spying on journalists using technology developed by Israel, the so-called “only democracy in the middle east”.
I think the pig with lipstick in the middle East is being seen as the pig with lipstick within these few months. India still has a long way to go.
India is considered south Asia its never been a part of the middle east
Israel is not India.
what steps would one need to take to avoid having such spyware installed onto their phones? and is there any way to know if such spyware is already installed on one’s device?
asking for a friend.
can grapheneos prevent pegasus spyware ?
thanks. i did see this in a parallel thread, but I’m wary of allowing third-party emulators such as imazing full access to my devices.
and then theres the point of an ounce of prevention. how does this spyware even install itself on devices in the first place? what’s my condom here?
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High-profile journalists in India have been targeted with the invasive spyware Pegasus, according to a report published by Amnesty International on Thursday.
“Our latest findings show that increasingly, journalists in India face the threat of unlawful surveillance simply for doing their jobs, alongside other tools of repression including imprisonment under draconian laws, smear campaigns, harassment, and intimidation,” Donncha O Cearbhaill, the head of Amnesty’s Security Lab, said.
Amnesty was unable to ascertain whether his phone was successfully compromised, but the attack came while Mangnale was working on a story about alleged stock manipulation by a large multinational conglomerate in India.
The Pegasus spyware was devised by Israeli company NSO Group and has been found to have been used on phones belonging to journalists and politicians worldwide — in both authoritarian regimes and democracies.
In response to the latest findings, the company told The Washington Post that it could not comment on specific customers, but that they were all “vetted law enforcement and intelligence agencies that license our technologies for the sole purpose of fighting terror and major crime.”
“Amnesty International is calling on all countries, including India, to ban the use and export of highly invasive spyware, which cannot be independently audited or limited in its functionality,” he added.
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