Pegasus phone hacking: secret surveillance of politicians, journalists, lawyers around the world with Israeli technology
Pegasus brawl all over the world, but why?
An Israeli company has sold a phone spyware to governments to secretly monitor the phones of human rights activists, politicians, journalists and lawyers in various countries around the world, according to media reports.
Pegasus is the name of a bird king horse in mythology. This bird king horse is mentioned in Indian and Greek mythology. NSO has named this hacking software after itself as the name of that mythical horse.
This spyware is activated on his phone at the click of a button,
Pegasus can be easily accessed on anyone's phone. This malware can be sent to iPhone or Android phone through any link.
This spyware is activated on the phone when the user clicks on that link. It can also be activated through voice calls. The user of the respective phone will not even notice it.
This malware can enter the iPhone or Android phone and smuggle the user's messages, pictures, emails. At the same time, this malware can record calls and secretly turn on the microphone.
Phone calls, messages, messages, photos, WhatsApp chats, and even pictures can be received by the customer through Pegasus. Every piece of information about the person concerned can reach that customer through the phone.
However, the NSO claims that they sell the software only to the government of a country. Not to any person.
The Israeli company NSO Group bought the spyware and the buyers reportedly secretly monitored 50,000 phones.
The list and the investigation report have been leaked to some of the world's leading media outlets.
Seventeen media outlets, including The Guardian in London, published the findings simultaneously.
However, it is not yet clear how many phones have been hacked in how many countries.
IOS or Android - no phone gets rid of Pegasus.
The Israeli company that sold the malware has denied the allegations.
They say they have sold the software to military, law enforcement and intelligence agencies in countries with good human rights records.
Details about the spyware, called Pegasus, have been published in the Washington Post, The Guardian, Le Monde and 14 other media outlets.
India's news portal The Wire lists at least 300 politicians, journalists, rights activists and scientists in the country.
The list also includes two of the portal's founding journalists, The Wire reports.
Shortly after the assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, his fiance Hatish Genghis's phone was also hacked with Pegasus.
The full list has not yet been released. But media outlets involved in the investigation say they have identified at least 1,000 people in 50 countries around the world.
These include heads of state, politicians, businessmen, rights activists, and members of several Arab royal families.
The list includes more than 160 journalists, including CNN, Al Jazeera and the New York Times.
Most of these illegal surveillance incidents took place in 10 countries: India, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
When contacted by these countries as part of the investigation, their spokesmen denied using Pegasus and conducting surveillance illegally.
A detailed list of countries whose phones have been hacked using Pegasus will be released in the next few days.
What is Pegasus spyware and how does it work?
In 2019, the issue of this spyware came in the headlines. It is believed that NSO customers have been eavesdropping on these numbers since 2016.
However, Pegasus was first used in 2014. The software was used to hack the iPhone of an Arab human rights activist.
That's why iPhone maker Apple released an update to their operating system a few days after the incident.
In 2016, cyber security researchers said that such software can be easily used on Android-based smartphones.
In 2019, the controversy between NSO and Pegasus came to light. Pegasus is currently the most sophisticated hacking software.
According to the British daily The Guardian, Pegasus is probably the most powerful spyware created by any private company.
This malware has the ability to secretly monitor iOS or Android-powered phones.
According to a detailed report in The Guardian, if Pegasus can somehow get into your phone once, then the malware has the power to turn your phone into a 24-hour surveillance device without your knowledge.
Pegasus secretly copies and smuggles all the messages or pictures you send or receive from your phone. Sends to specific places.
This spyware can record your phone conversations invisibly, and even secretly record your video using the phone's camera.
Pegasus is also thought to know where you are, where you went, or who you met.
According to The Guardian, the research in 2016 You can learn about the very first version of Pegasus.
At that time, text messages or emails were sent to the phone of a certain person, so that there was a link.
Clicking on that link would take control of the Pegasus phone.
However, since then the NSO group has multiplied the power of this spyware.
Israeli-made spyware Pegasus has been used to monitor the phone calls of human rights activists, journalists, lawyers and politicians around the world.
It is alleged that the hacking software, developed by the Israeli Cyber Intelligence Agency (NSO), was used by the ruling governments of various countries to carry out the surveillance.
Spy scandal in India with Israeli Pegasus
No one was left out. The phones of two Union ministers, three main opposition leaders, a constitutional official, more than 40 journalists, many businessmen, industrialists, current and former heads of security agencies, social workers, bureaucrats and lawyers have been intercepted by Israeli software Pegasus.
Since 2019, the media of 18 countries have been conducting an investigation called 'Pegasus Project'. Since that investigation, so many people in India have been accused of eavesdropping on their phones.
The uproar started after this report came to light. Allegations have been leveled against the Modi government. Because, according to the Israeli company, they have sold Pegasus software only to the governments of different countries.
But the Modi government has denied the allegations. According to the government, there are laws and rules in the country about eavesdropping on the phone.
In the national interest, some phones are intercepted in compliance with that rule. However, permission of the appropriate authority was taken for him in advance. The government is also responsible for protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
In 2019, WhatsApp reported that 1,400 mobile phones from four continents had been hacked through Pegasus. Among them were Priyanka Gandhi, Prafulla Patel, several social workers, lawyers and journalists involved in the Bhima-Koregaon case.
According to WhatsApp, 20 people in India had their phones intercepted. At the time, Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the government had not given any instructions for eavesdropping.
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