NSO Group Still Dropping Pegasus Hacks

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Published on July 20, 2021 8:45:01 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPcgDN1zqJU

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NSO Group vows to investigate Potential Spyware Abuse:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/07/18/reactions-pegasus-project-nso/

THE PEGASUS PROJECT: MASSIVE DATA LEAK REVEALS ISRAELI NSO GROUP’S SPYWARE USED TO TARGET ACTIVISTS, JOURNALISTS, AND POLITICAL LEADERS GLOBALLY

NSO Group’s spyware has been used to facilitate human rights violations around the world on a massive scale, according to a major investigation into the leak of 50,000 phone numbers of potential surveillance targets. These include heads of state, activists and journalists, including Jamal Khashoggi’s family.

The Pegasus Project is a ground-breaking collaboration by more than 80 journalists from 17 media organizations in 10 countries coordinated by Forbidden Stories, a Paris-based media non-profit, with the technical support of Amnesty International, who conducted cutting- edge forensic tests on mobile phones to identify traces of the spyware.

“The Pegasus Project lays bare how NSO’s spyware is a weapon of choice for repressive governments seeking to silence journalists, attack activists and crush dissent, placing countless lives in peril,” said Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International.

https://www.amnestyusa.org/press-releases/the-pegasus-project-massive-data-leak-reveals-israeli-nso-groups-spyware-used-to-target-activists-journalists-and-political-leaders-globally/


Saudis behind NSO spyware attack on Jamal Khashoggi’s family, leak suggests

In the wake of the brutal murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the NSO Group emphatically denied that its government clients had used its hacking malware to target the journalist or his family.

“I can tell you very clear. We had nothing to do with this horrible murder,” Shalev Hulio, the chief executive of the Israeli surveillance firm, told the US TV news programme 60 Minutes in March 2019. It was six months after Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist, was killed in Turkey by assassins dispatched by Saudi Arabia, a client of NSO.

Now a joint investigation by the Guardian and other media, based on leaked data and forensic analysis of phones, has uncovered new evidence that the company’s spyware was used to try and monitor people close to Khashoggi both before and after his death.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/18/nso-spyware-used-to-target-family-of-jamal-khashoggi-leaked-data-shows-saudis-pegasus