Countries hack thousands of people’s smartphones with Israeli corporate plan, according to Newspaper Federation

Computer programs that want to invade other computers are called malware. Developed by a company called Pegasus Israel, Oh NSO team. The story was published by newspapers in the United Kingdom and the United States on Sunday (18).

Oh Pegasus There is Very aggressive tool, Which can activate the cell phone’s camera and microphone, as well as access data from the device, turning it into a pocket spy.

In some cases, he Can be installed without having to trick the user into downloading, This is the most common way to access a device.

The Israeli company sold the project to the country’s governments. It is believed that the customers of this company have decided which smartphones will be hacked.

Has already been identified More than a thousand people, In 50 countries, they were targeted by NSO group malware.

They include 189 journalists, more than 600 politicians or government officials, at least 65 business executives, 85 human rights activists and some state leaders, the Washington Post reported.

Prohibited Stories, Paris non-profit organization and Amnesty International have come up with a list of 50,000 phone numbers hacked by Israeli malware.

The two companies searched for a team of 16 international newspapers to form a consortium trying to find out who the victims of intelligence were.

The federation was able to identify the first 1,000 names and is trying to reach 50,000 on the list.

It has not been revealed how the banned stories approached the hacked 50,000 smartphone numbers.

The federation believes the numbers on the list are potential targets for NSO clients.

The NSO panel said the banned stories report illustrates unproven theories and is riddled with misconceptions. The company denies maintaining a list of potential targets.

The company claims that Pegasus is only sold to authorized government agencies and that it is only used to pursue terrorists and major criminals. In addition, the NSO Group claims that its customer data is inaccessible.

Customer list not published. The NSO group says it sells its technology only to governments that have approved Israel to identify terrorists, pedophile networks and end drug or human trafficking.

The company also claims that the Pegasus has saved thousands of lives.

Founded in 2010 by Israeli Shalev Julio and Omri Lavi, the NSO is headquartered at the Israeli High Technology Center in Herslia, near Tel Aviv, and employs hundreds of people in Israel and around the world.

Malware-affected journalists

Journalists affected by the Israeli program include people working for the Associated Press and Reuters, “The Wall Street Journal”, “The Financial Times” and “Le Mont” and the CNN network.

The Washington Post has identified 37 smartphone numbers of its employees on the list. The “Guardian” found its 15 journalists.

The Associated Press has identified the numbers of two reporters.

The list also includes the phone number of Hatice Genghis, the fiance of journalist Jamal Kashoki, who was assassinated at the Saudi Arabian embassy in Istanbul in 2018 (added to her smartphone list four days after the murder).

Of the 50,000 smartphones listed by Forbidden Stories and Amnesty International, 15 thousand people are from Mexico. Aside from Mexico, there are numerous numbers from other countries in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East.

There are also figures from France, Hungary, India, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Pakistan.

The Washington Post reports that 15,000 phone numbers are in Mexico, affecting politicians, union leaders, journalists and government critics.

The list includes the number of a Mexican independent journalist murdered just weeks after a smartphone was added. Your phone was never found and it is not clear if it was hacked.

The investigation revealed that Moroccan security services had hacked the cell phones of nearly 30 journalists and executives of French media groups using spy software.

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