Over the last week, The Washington Post along with 16 partners conducted an investigation; which revealed military-grade spyware for tracking terrorists. business executives, and human rights activists. The Israeli firm, NSO Group Pegasus, is the leading unregulated private spyware firm in the industry; according to The Washington Post.
These new Pegasus Spyware revelations should come as no surprise since Facebook, Google, and Verizon have spied, and sold their users data to the feds for years.
Phone companies (strong armed by feds) have plugged into your conversations since the wire was created w/o warrants.
— 🜏 wbtsec ⛧ (@wbtsec) July 21, 2021
Pegasus Spyware Warrants International Cyber Security Attention – The Organization for World Peace – The Organization for World Peace https://t.co/CISx8mfZ7T pic.twitter.com/2rSVdtG29x
— Trevor Kennedy (@trevorkennedy) July 25, 2021
NSO Group issued a statement:
Moreover, The 37 phones appeared on a list of 50,000 numbers, centered in countries known to illegally survey citizens and serve as clients to NSO Group. Furthermore, The Paris-based non-profit organization Forbidden Stories and human rights group Amnesty International had access to the list and shared it with media outlets for further investigation. NSO Group issued a statement on their website denying the reports from Forbidden Stories, saying they are “full of wrong assumptions and uncorroborated theories that raise serious doubt about the reliability and interests of the sources.” Reporters and investigators were able to identify many numbers on the list and match them to people spanning across the globe. Among them were royal Arab family members; several heads of state and prime ministers, 65 business executives, 85 human rights activists, 189 journalists; and more than 600 politicians and government officials.