They also demanded compensation of $72,000 each. Pegasus spyware can be installed remotely onto a target’s phone without the target having to click any links or download software to become infected.

Traditional spyware often requires the target to make a mistake, like clicking on a suspicious link. Pegasus, however, can infiltrate a device without any such input.

Software engineers would later discover that the program downloaded on users’ phones was the Pegasus spyware. Claudiu Gheorghe, one of the senior engineers at Meta who handled the May 2019 incident, ...

Since 2019, WhatsApp has pushed for access to the NSO's spyware code after alleging that Pegasus was used to spy on 1,400 WhatsApp users over a two-week period, gaining unauthorized access to ...

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“It was the first time that we have spyware use documented in a war like this,” says Natalia Krapiva, tech-legal counsel at Access Now. With it comes a whole host of complications.

NSO Group claimed at the time that its spyware “was not used in this instance.” Security researchers say the proliferation of spyware is making its use — and misuse — harder to contain.

Some spyware, like Pegasus, also has characteristic traits that make it easier to flag. In the seven detections, Mobile Threat Hunting caught Pegasus using diagnostic data, shutdown logs, and ...

Poland’s parliament opened an inquiry into the use of the NSO Group’s spyware under the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party, which ruled the country for eight years.

A new report says Israeli-made Pegasus spyware was used in Jordan to hack the cellphones of nearly three dozen people, including journalists, lawyers and human rights activists.

Two prominent Thai activists have launched legal action accusing Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha’s government of using Pegasus spyware to infiltrate their mobile devices during a campaign of ...