Israel, Cybersurveillance, and the Case of the Ayotzinapa 43 | NACLA – June 2023

Tomás Zerón de Lucio, a key figure in the forced disappearance and subsequent government cover-up of the Ayotzinapa case, is hiding out in Tel Aviv thanks to his close ties to the Israeli cybersurveillance industry.

This month marks eight years since 43 students of the Ayotzinapa teachers’ college were forcibly disappeared from the town of Iguala in Mexico’s Guerrero state. On September 26, however, survivors, families of the disappeared, and the Mexican people at large will face a significantly different anniversary than those of previous years. Last month, the Truth Commission convened by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador published a report finding that the enforced disappearance of the 43 students on the night of September 26, 2014 constituted a “crime of state” in which all levels of the Mexican state participated.

Comision para la Verdad Ayotzinapa + Previous post

#Ayotzinapa43
#Pegasus #NSO #Mexico #Israel

The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union and its coordinated fight against the use of Pegasus spyware - Media Defence – June 2023

The main problem is that Hungarian national security laws permit the government and its officials to use spyware tools to monitor citizens – without any judicial oversight. Even though it has been revealed by investigative journalists that Pegasus was used against journalists, we still know very little about this use. Decision-makers are able to keep everything secret.

People who were spied on with Pegasus could not access any information about their surveillance. They also could not find out the reasons that they were targeted. Another important issue is that there are no judicial procedures to provide remedies for those who have been targeted by the spyware. Under Hungarian law it seems impossible to achieve justice.

#Pegasus #NSO #Hungary #spyware

The Former Israeli Spies Working in Top Jobs at Google, Facebook and Microsoft – MintPress - June 2023

AMintPress study has found that hundreds of former agents of the notorious Israeli spying organization, Unit 8200, have attained positions of influence in many of the world’s biggest tech companies, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon.

The Israeli Defense Forces’ (IDF) Unit 8200 is infamous for surveilling the indigenous Palestinian population, amassing kompromat on individuals for the purposes of blackmail and extortion. Spying on the world’s rich and famous, Unit 8200 hit the headlines last year, after the Pegasus scandal broke. Former Unit 8200 officers designed and implemented software that spied on tens of thousands of politicians and likely aided in the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

#NSO #Pegasus #Israel #Unit8200 #ProjectNimbus #Google #Meta #Facebook #Microsoft #Intel #spyware #surveillance

Pegasus: the famous spyware attacks in the Dominican Republic | DominicanToday - May 2023

Santo Domingo.- On May 2, Amnesty International issued a warning about the notorious Pegasus spyware operating in the Dominican Republic. The organization specifically highlighted an attack on investigative journalist Nuria Piera and identified the country as the third in the Americas, following Mexico and El Salvador, where Pegasus has been confirmed to target both journalists and human rights advocates.

Erika Guevara-Rosas, Americas director at Amnesty International, stated, “After uncovering multiple cases in Mexico and El Salvador, we will persist in investigating any evidence suggesting further usage of Pegasus in the Dominican Republic.”

The Dominican Republic is not just a charming island in the Caribbean, some historical background :
https://revcom.us/en/a/476/american-crime-case-68-1965-us-invasion-of-dominican-republic-en.html

#Pegasus #NSO #DominicanRepublic #Carribean

Spanish court halts probe into Israeli spyware hacking of Pedro Sánchez’s phone - Politico - July 2023

Spain National Court announced Monday that the investigation into the phone hacking which targeted Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has been put on hold, due to Israel's failure to provide information on the case.

Pegasus, a spyware product from the Israeli company NSO, was used to hack into Sanchez's phone between 2020 and 2021. The phones belonging to Spain's ministers of defense, interior and agriculture were also spied on. Around three gigabytes of information were allegedly stolen from Sánchez's phone.

José Luis Calama, a judge at Spain's National Court, said that "the very security of the state has been put in jeopardy," during the spyware hacks, as reported by local media Monday.The Spanish court asked Israel to provide information on the matter more than a year ago — but never received an answer..

#Spain #Pegasus #NSO

Facebook approached NSO to buy Pegasus spyware capabilities to monitor certain iOS users, according to a statement filed in a court case by the NSO CEO


WhatsApp vs. NSO Group, et al.
4:19-cv-07123-PJH

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6824735-Declaration-of-Shalev-Hulio-in-Support-of.html

#Pegasus #NSO #Israel #Facebook #Ios #Apple

😅Не знаю как можно смотреть без улыбки на такие новости/расследования.

😅I don't know how you can look at such news/investigations without a smile.

📑Who Paid for a Mysterious Spy Tool? The F.B.I., an F.B.I. Inquiry Found.
"When The New York Times reported in April that a contractor had purchased and deployed a spying tool made by NSO, the contentious Israeli hacking firm, for use by the U.S. government, White House officials said they were unaware of the contract and put the F.B.I. in charge of figuring out who might have been using the technology.
After an investigation, the F.B.I. uncovered at least part of the answer: It was the F.B.I."🤣
📑FBI Ordered to Find Out Which Agency Disobeyed White House in Secret Deal, Finds Out It Was Itself.
"Now, several months later, the bureau’s investigation is complete, and it turns out that the agency that disobeyed the White House and purchased the creepy NSO tool was...the FBI."🤣

#NSO_Group #unit8200 #FBI #investigation #WhiteHouse #spy_tools #Pegasus_Spyware

Israeli Shin Bet opposes Pegasus probe, cites security concerns | Al Mayadeen English – August 2023

The Israeli internal security agency, the Shin Bet, told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the "National Security Council" that it opposed Israeli Justice Minister Yariv Levin's proposal to grant an investigative committee the authority to probe the Pegasus spyware, according to I24news Israeli Website.

Levin is set to propose to the government on Sunday to grant the committee the authority to look into the Pegasus spyware scandal.

The Shin Bet informed Netanyahu and the security council of its opposition to Levin's proposal for several reasons, most notably the exposure of its capabilities to the Israeli public, which may lead to secrets being exposed.

#Pegasus #NSO #Israel #SinBet
#spyware

The FBI recently uploaded a heavily redacted file on Israeli spy firm NSO Group, the organization behind the Pegasus spyware:"

The FBI's response to Wyden's inquiry about the use of mobile ad IDs, along with significant sections covering the bureau's relationship with NSO Group, is fully redacted, adding to this is : no file download possible..

https://vault.fbi.gov/nso-group/nso-group-part-01/view


#FBI #Pegasus #NSO #US

Citizen Lab (@citizenlab): "🚨🚨WE URGE EVERYONE TO UPDATE THEIR APPLE DEVICES AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. We have found an actively exploited #zero #click vulnerability that was used to deliver #NSO group’s #Pegasus #spyware. https://citizenlab.ca/2023/09/blastpass-nso-group-iphone-zero-click-zero-day-exploit-captured-in-the-wild/" | nitter – https://nitter.net/citizenlab/status/1699873620070191520#m

"The Polish Senate Committee has published its report into the use of #Pegasus spyware in Poland. @amnestytech and @amnestypl provided expert testimony to the investigation, which concludes that the purchase and use of Pegasus was unlawful"

Prace / Druki / Senat Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej – https://www.senat.gov.pl/prace/druki/

#NSO #Pegasus #Poland #EU

If you wonder why there are protests in Spain, inflated by local presstitutes or Fucker Ciason, that's one of the reasons.
Some government members were reportedly targeted with israeli spyware #pegasus until months ago

The right wing statists are blaming CIA puppet Pedro Sanchez of "breaking Spain" with amnesty to secessionist politicians in Catalonia that organized a referendum a few years ago

CIA king Juan Carlos I (father of the also king Felipe) has been living abroad since accusations of corruption.
One of the first things Juan Carlos did was to sell the Spanish Sahara region to CIA Morocco. The biggest reserves of phosphates for fertilizers in the world, and very rich fishing waters

All press coverage of the genocide against Palestinians has been purposefully distracted with the next queen swearing in the constitution because she's 18 and CIA selected his family.
Or by this right wing statist protests against amnesty of Catalonians that organized an independence referendum years ago

India: Damning new forensic investigation reveals repeated use of Pegasus spyware to target high-profile journalists - Amnesty International –

Forensic investigations by Amnesty International’s Security Lab confirmed that Siddharth Varadarajan, Founding Editor of The Wire, and Anand Mangnale, the South Asia Editor at The Organised Crime and Corruption Report Project (OCCRP), were among the journalists recently targeted with Pegasus spyware on their iPhones, with the latest identified case occurring in October 2023.

#India #Pegasus #NSO #Spyware #Iphones

Kaspersky reveals new method to detect Pegasus spyware | Kaspersky –

Kaspersky's Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) has developed a lightweight method to detect indicators of infection from sophisticated iOS spyware such as #Pegasus, #Reign, and #Predator through analyzing Shutdown.log, a previously unexplored #forensic artifact.

The company’s experts discovered Pegasus infections leave traces in the unexpected system log, Shutdown.log, stored within any mobile #iOS device’s sysdiagnose archive. This archive retains information from each reboot session, meaning anomalies associated with the Pegasus malware become apparent in the log if an infected user reboots their device.

Among those identified were instances of ”sticky“ processes impeding reboots, particularly those linked to Pegasus, along with infection traces discovered through cybersecurity community observations.

#Pegasus #NSO #Reign #Predador #iOS #Spyware #Malware #Kapersky #MobileForensics #CyberSec

Confirming Large-Scale Pegasus Surveillance of Jordan-based Civil Society | The Citizen Lab

As part of a collaborative investigation led by Access Now, Citizen Lab researchers conducted forensic analysis of iPhones belonging to members of Jordan-based civil society

The investigation into the targeting of Jordanian civil society with Pegasus was led by Access Now, with the collaboration of Access Now’s local partners, alongside Amnesty Tech, the Citizen Lab, Human Rights Watch, and the Organized Crime and the Corruption Reporting Project.

The investigation found that at least 35 individuals were infected or targeted with Pegasus spyware, from at least 2019 until September 2023, but does not preclude the possibility of infections occurring before or after this timeframe.

#Pegasus #NSO #Spyware #Jordan

High Court grants permission for journalist's legal case against UAE's alleged spyware use - Solicitors Journal

Rania Dridi, a journalist and former activist known for her involvement in the Tunisian revolution of 2011, has been granted permission by the High Court in London to initiate legal proceedings against the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The case revolves around the alleged use of Pegasus spyware to infiltrate her mobile phone, marking a significant development in the realm of digital surveillance and transnational repression.

#Pegasus #NSO #Tunisia #UAE
#RaniaDridi #Journalist

Judge Orders NSO Group to Surrender Pegasus Source Code to Meta | BitDefender - March 2024

A US Judge ordered the infamous spyware developer and vendor NSO Group to turn over its source code to Meta as part of an almost four-year lawsuit.

Meta sued NSO in 2019 after the American company discovered that a zero-day WhatsApp vulnerability was used to deploy the spyware. According to a Guardian report, the NSO's spyware was allegedly used against 1,400 people in the course of just two weeks.

#Pegasus #NSO vs #Meta #WhatsApp #SourceCode

"Is Pegasus 2.0 coming?

Apple warns iPhone users in India and 91 other countries about potential spyware attacks. The company previously sent similar warnings to Indian politicians, suggesting possible state-sponsored spyware attacks."

Apple warns some Indian users their iPhone may be bugged by Pegasus-type spyware | Technology News - The Indian Express -

#Pegasus #NSO #Apple #iPhone #India #Spyware