Pegasus

WhatsApp scores historic victory against NSO Group in long-running spyware hacking case

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A U.S. judge had ruled that Israeli spyware maker NSO Group breached hacking laws by using WhatsApp to stealthily infect devices with its Pegasus spyware. In a historic ruling on Friday, a Northern California federal judge held NSO Group liable for targeting the devices of 1,400 WhatsApp users, violating state and federal hacking laws as […]

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Business leaders among Pegasus spyware victims, says security firm

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Security firm iVerify said a leader of a big company was among several individuals whose iPhones were recently targeted with the Pegasus spyware.  While journalists, human rights defenders, lawmakers, and political officials are frequent targets of state surveillance, reports of spyware compromising the phones of business leaders are rare, but not unheard of. The findings

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Poland arrests former spy chief in Pegasus spyware probe

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For the last few years, the Polish government under Donald Tusk has been investigating the use — and alleged abuse — of Pegasus phone spyware by the previous government.  On Monday, the former head of Poland’s internal security agency Piotr Pogonowski was arrested and forcibly taken to testify before parliament, as part of the current

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