What is Pegasus Spyware and How It Works?
Last Updated : 02 Aug, 2021
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If you don’t know about it yet then no worries as here in this article we’re going to know about every crucial aspect of this ‘Pegasus Spyware’ such as what is this, how it works, why it is being used, etc. But before knowing about the ‘Pegasus Spyware’, first, let’s understand what is Spyware? Spyware is some sort of malicious software that is usually installed in your computer or mobile device, even without your consent, to damage your system or steal sensitive data.
What is Pegasus Spyware?
The Pegasus Spyware, created by the Israeli cyber intelligence firm NSO Group, is also designed to hack the computers or mobile devices to gain access to the device and retrieve the data from it without the user’s consent and then deliver it to the third party who is actually spying on you. However, the parent organization of this Pegasus Spyware claims that it is intended to help government authorities to be used against terrorists and criminals by spying on them.
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/what-is-pegasus-spyware-and-how-it-works/
She Investigated Government Corruption. She Became a Pegasus Spyware Target.
January 3, 2023
by
Patrice Taddonio
Khadija Ismayilova was no stranger to being a target.
In years past, the award-winning investigative journalist — who reports on government corruption in Azerbaijan, an oil-and-gas-rich former republic of the USSR — had been blackmailed, arrested, imprisoned and forbidden to leave her country.
Then came a new, unforeseen threat.
In the above excerpt from the two-part documentary series Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus, Ismayilova learns she’s been targeted with Pegasus — a powerful hacking tool sold to governments by the Israeli company NSO Group that gives its operators complete access to its targets’ mobile devices.
Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus chronicles how a groundbreaking investigation by 17 news organizations including FRONTLINE, led by the French journalism nonprofit Forbidden Stories with technical support from Amnesty International’s Security Lab and additional assistance from Citizen Lab, found that Pegasus had been used on human rights activists, the wife and fiancée of the murdered Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi, and others.
Including journalists like Ismayilova.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/pegasus-spyware-scandal-khadija-ismayilova-documentary-excerpt/
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZVj1_SE4Mo&t=1s
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYMWTXIkANM