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Wonder if NSO was involved in that leak of Bezo's phone data awhile back.
by bluetwo 5y ago
Wonder if NSO was involved in that leak of Bezo's phone data awhile back.
- sva_ 5y agoI thought about the same. Perhaps an "order from the top."
- tnolet 5y agoI was thinking exactly the same thing. Given what we know about this hack — a Whatsapp or iMessage essentially taking over his whole phone — this seems plausible.
- kaonwarb 5y agoFrom Amazon Unbound, p.344: > De Becker then commissioned an examination of Bezos’s iPhone X. The eventual report by Anthony Ferrante, a longtime colleague of de Becker’s and the former director for cyber incident response for the U.S. National Security Council, concluded that the promotional video about broadband prices that MBS had sent Bezos the previous year likely contained a copy of Pegasus, a piece of nearly invisible malware created by an Israeli company called NSO Group. Once the program was activated, Ferrante found, the volume of data leaving Bezos’s smartphone increased by about 3,000 percent.
- whymauri 5y agoJesus Christ, this software really is a weapon.
- cronix 5y ago> The eventual report by Anthony Ferrante, a longtime colleague of de Becker’s and the former director for cyber incident response for the U.S. National Security Council, concluded that the promotional video about broadband prices that MBS had sent Bezos the previous year likely contained a copy of Pegasus, a piece of nearly invisible malware created by an Israeli company called NSO Group. Key word in that sentence: "likely." AFAIK, nothing has been proven beyond rumor and conjecture, which isn't proof of anything at all. Did they find the Pegasus or related code on the phone, or not? That is a yes or no answer. Likely?
- tptacek 5y agoWasn't there recently a whole huge story about how it turned out to be his girlfriend's brother?
- largbae 5y agoI'd like a link if so, I have been interested in why that story isn't more important, given the attention other state-sponsored hacks have received...
- polar 5y agohttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-05-05/how-jeff-bezos-beat-the-tabloids-the-untold-story-of-money-sex-and-power https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-05-05/how-jeff-...
- Leparamour 5y agoIt's not a contradiction. Whoever would have ordered NSO or similar actor to hack Bezos' phone is probably after more juicy info than a dick pic or at least wouldn't leak it for 'lulz' and thereby revealing that the phone is compromised somehow.
- tptacek 5y agoI don't know if it's a contradiction, but my understanding is that the stuff that actually leaked, we have a good handle on where it came from.