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To summarize part 1: - Journalists investigate 2016-2020 leak of phone numbers targeted by NSO advanced spyware - reveals that it was not primarily remotable
by meltyness 4y ago
To summarize part 1:
- Journalists investigate 2016-2020 leak of phone numbers targeted by NSO advanced spyware
- reveals that it was not primarily remotable exploits, but rather involved social engineering in many cases
- uncover victims near Khashoggi, but only after the killing
- uncover possibly corrupt use by the Mexican government, as well as a brief narrative on operator-side
- uncover use in Azerbaijan against journalists
- scyzoryk_xyz 4y agoHere in Poland used by political party with public funding to strategically spy on and sabotage opposition party (bypassing actual real intelligence agencies). What strikes me is how Pegasus wasn’t really used by sophisticated intelligence agencies but as a product by actors adjacent to or below that level of access. All of this in my mind harkens back to that fantastic Coppola film „The Conversation”. It is inevitable that scummy companies and specialists will always emerge with a well priced product or tool for getting some shitty job done.