Pegasus Affair
Pegasus Project Explained: How Ministers, Politicians, Journalists in India Have Been Spied On https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXlc_uFxVZY 300 people we know of 16 institutions, 80 jounralist,
A review of the leaked database by The Wire and partner news organisations shows that at least nine numbers belonged to eight activists, lawyers and academics arrested between June 2018 and October 2020 for their supposed role in the Elgar Parishad case.
Pegasus Project: How Phones of Journalists, Ministers, Activists May Have Been Used to Spy On Them https://thewire.in/government/project-pegasus-journalists-ministers-activists-phones-spying
An international collaborative reporting project has established the frightening extent to which governments around the world, including India, could be using surveillance tools in ways that have nothing to do with national security.
Senior lawyer Mihir Desai, who is representing several persons arrested in the case, said that this attack can’t be looked at as “simple surveillance”. “It goes beyond surveillance, it is actually interference with the person’s life. The malware is planted to get control over the person’s data and life,” Desai told The Wire. In the absence of a clear data protection law, it has become a nightmare to defend these cases in court, Desai added.
Phones Of Journalists, Politicians Hacked Using Spyware in 2017-2019: Report https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbPhZKmsAy4 Phone numbers of Indian ministers, opposition leaders and journalists have been found on a leaked database of targets for hacking that used Israeli spyware 'Pegasus', reported news website The Wire and other publications this evening. Members of the legal community, businessmen, government officials, scientists, rights activists and others are also in the list of over 300 verified Indian mobile telephone numbers, the reports said.
2 Ministers, 40 Journalists, 3 Opposition Figures Targeted By Spy Software: Report https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYR-MC7Bh00 Phone numbers of Indian ministers, opposition leaders and journalists have been found on a database of targets for hacking that used Israeli spyware 'Pegasus' - only available to governments - reported The Wire and other publications this evening.
What is Pegasus spyware and how does it hack phones? https://amp.theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/18/what-is-pegasus-spyware-and-how-does-it-hack-phones David Pegg and Sam Cutler
Sun 18 Jul 2021 NSO Group software can record your calls, copy your messages and secretly film you
Huge data leak shatters the lie that the innocent need not fear surveillance The Pegasus project is a collaborative reporting project led by the French nonprofit organisation Forbidden Stories, including the Guardian and 16 other media outlets. For months, our journalists have been working with reporters across the world to establish the identities of people in the leaked data and see if and how this links to NSO’s software.
Few pause to think that their phones can be transformed into surveillance devices, with someone thousands of miles away silently extracting their messages, photos and location, activating their microphone to record them in real time.
Such are the capabilities of Pegasus, the spyware manufactured by NSO Group, the Israeli purveyor of weapons of mass surveillance.
NSO rejects this label. It insists only carefully vetted government intelligence and law enforcement agencies can use Pegasus, and only to penetrate the phones of “legitimate criminal or terror group targets”.
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