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28Dec

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India targeting high-profile journalists with spyware: Amnesty

[ad_1] India's government has recently targeted high-profile journalists with Pegasus spyware, Amnesty International and The Washington Post said in a joint investigation published Thursday. Created by Israeli firm NSO Group and sold to governments around the world, Pegasus software can be used to access a phone's messages and emails, peruse photos, eavesdrop on calls, track locations, and even film the owner with the camera. Amnesty said journalists Siddharth Varadarajan of The Wire and Anand Mangnale of The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project had been targeted with the spyware on their iPhones, with the latest identified case occurring in October. "Our latest findings show that increasingly, journalists in India face the threat of unlawful surveillance simply for doing ...

Two European spyware firms added to US export blacklist

20Jul

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Two European spyware firms added to US export blacklist

[ad_1] The U.S. Commerce Department added two Europe-based spyware companies to its technology export blacklist on Tuesday for developing surveillance tools deemed to have threatened U.S. national security as well as the privacy and integrity of individuals and organizations worldwide.Such tools are regularly used for political repression and other human rights abuses, including for spying on journalists and intimidating political dissidents. The sanctioned companies are in Greece-based Intellexa S.A., Hungary-based Cytrox and related entities in Ireland and Macedonia. Intellexa and Cytrox have been linked to Predator spyware, whose reported use in Greece helped precipitate the resignation last year of two top government officials, including the national intelligence director. Commercia...

NSO Group Found New Ways to Hack iPhones Last Year, Researchers Say

19Apr

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NSO Group Found New Ways to Hack iPhones Last Year, Researchers Say

[ad_1] The Israeli surveillance technology company NSO Group used at least three methods for breaking into iPhones when targeting members of civil society in 2022, according to a report by the Citizen Lab, a research group at the University of Toronto.The methods, known as zero-click exploit chains, allows the company to circumvent security features of the Apple Inc. phones and install NSO's “Pegasus” spyware, which can collect information from a device and also use its cameras and microphones for real-time surveillance. In zero-click hacks, a user doesn't have to click on a malicious link for the malware to infect a device. Citizen Lab said the hacking methods were used against devices belonging to members of the Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez AC Human Rights Center, known as Centro Prodh, ...

Spyware Developer NSO Group Sued by Salvadoran Journalists

2Dec

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Spyware Developer NSO Group Sued by Salvadoran Journalists

[ad_1] Fifteen staffers of El Faro, a Salvadoran online news outlet, sued the Israeli company NSO Group for allegedly providing spyware that was used to hack into journalists’ mobile phones. (Bloomberg) -- Fifteen staffers of El Faro, a Salvadoran online news outlet, sued the Israeli company NSO Group for allegedly providing spyware that was used to hack into journalists' mobile phones. “These spyware attacks were an attempt to silence our sources and deter us from doing journalism,” Carlos Dada, El Faro's co-founder and director, said in a statement. “We are filing this lawsuit to defend our right to investigate and report, and to protect journalists around the world in their pursuit of the truth.” NSO Group has been under intense scrutiny for years. Human-rights groups and digi...