The Spy in Your Phone | Al Jazeera World

[hannah54321]

In mid-2020, a mobile phone belonging to an Al Jazeera Arabic investigative team was hacked. Over the next few months, reporter Tamer Almisshal and the Canadian research group Citizen Lab investigated Pegasus, the sophisticated spyware used.

Pegasus is manufactured by an Israeli technology company called the NSO Group and is among the most advanced spyware in the world. It can access and infiltrate a smartphone without the owner clicking a link, opening an email or even answering their phone - meaning it can go undetected.

This investigation exposes how Pegasus works, how governments like Saudi Arabia and the UAE have bought the hugely expensive spyware and how it has been used beyond the stated intentions of the NSO Group of “developing technology to prevent and investigate terror and crime” - including to target journalists

 

[Revolutionary]

@Omar del Sur

 

[Deleted L]

BBC mentioned this as well

 

[hannah54321]

BBC mentioned this as well

your phone can get hacked without you knowing by governments . Israelis have been doing this for quite a while wikileaks exposed this but their Arab Zionist neighbours have started to do the same . Scary time to be a journalist or activist.

 

[Nafiso Qalanjo]

 

[المهندس]

As long as you connect to the internet which in itself is a large network of computers and routers you're susceptible to a hack.

The only way to avoid getting hacked is to not use the Internet lol, keep anything private and confidential on an offline physical server which only you can access locally.

Even Microsoft have backdoors on all their windows os software.