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Politician who investigated spyware abuses had his phone hacked with Pegasus spyware (techcrunch.com)

submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@lemdro.id to c/cybersecurity@infosec.pub

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[–] timewarp@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sounds like an act of war, but me guess.. Pegasus is controlled by the Israeli government. And they already control foreign governments.

[–] 50MYT@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I was under the impression Pegasus was a cypress / greek company product, where the founder was from Israel (special tech military group). The founder made it outside of Israel so they didn't need to abide by their rules and laws.

However it does have a check to not target Israeli phone numbers.

Edit: the article states it's NSO group. Which is Israel based.