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Anonymous ID: ab846c Sept. 18, 2018, 8:22 a.m. No.3072747   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2806

#3886

 

>>3071527 - pb - more sauce

 

"The Amnesty International organization claimed on Tuesday that one of its employees had been targeted with Israeli-made surveillance software, The Associated Press reported.

 

The claim was made in a 20-page report in which Amnesty outlined how it thinks a hacker tried to break into an unidentified staff member’s smartphone in early June by baiting the employee with a WhatsApp message about a protest in front of the Saudi Embassy in Washington.

 

The London-based organization said it traced the malicious link in the message to a network of sites tied to the NSO Group, an Israeli surveillance company implicated in a series of digital break-in attempts, including a campaign to compromise proponents of a soda tax in Mexico and an effort to hack into the phone of an Arab dissident that prompted an update to Apple’s operating system.

 

Joshua Franco, Amnesty’s head of technology and human rights, said the latest hacking attempt was emblematic of the increased digital risk faced by activists worldwide.

 

“This is the new normal for human rights defenders,” Franco said, according to AP.

 

NSO said in a written statement that its product was “intended to be used exclusively for the investigation and prevention of crime and terrorism” and that allegations of wrongdoing would be investigated. The company added that past allegations of customer misuse had, in an undisclosed number of cases, led to the termination of contracts.

 

Amnesty’s findings were reportedly corroborated by internet watchdog Citizen Lab, which has been tracking NSO spyware for two years and is based at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs.

 

The Amnesty report said the organization identified a second human rights activist, in Saudi Arabia, who was targeted in a similar way to its staffer. Citizen Lab said it found traces of similar hacking attempts tied to Qatar or Saudi, hinting at the use of the Israeli spyware elsewhere in the Gulf."

 

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/249846

Anonymous ID: ab846c Sept. 18, 2018, 8:27 a.m. No.3072806   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>3072747 - more sauce

 

Pegasus software

Further information: Pegasus (spyware)

 

On August 25, 2016, Citizen Lab and Lookout revealed that software known as Pegasus, created by the company, was being used to target human rights activist Ahmed Mansoor in the United Arab Emirates.[14] Mansoor is an internationally recognized human rights activist and 2015 Martin Ennals Award Laureate. He informed Citizen Lab researchers Bill Marczak and John Scott-Railton that his iPhone 6 had been targeted on August 10, 2016, by means of a clickable link in an SMS text message.[8][15]

 

Analyses by Citizen Lab and Lookout discovered that the link downloaded software that exploited three previously unknown and unpatched zero-day vulnerabilities in the iPhone's operating system iOS.[16][17] According to their analyses, the software can silently jailbreak an iPhone when the phone owner, through spear phishing, is sent and opens a specific URL. After a user opens this link, the software installs on the phone, collecting all communications and locations of the targeted iPhones including iMessage, Gmail, Viber, Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram and Skype communications. The software can also collect Wi-Fi passwords.[8] The researchers noticed that the software's code referenced an NSO Group product called 'Pegasus' in leaked marketing materials.[6] Pegasus had previously come to light in a leak of records from the Italian company Hacking Team, when it was said to have been supplied to the government of Panama.[11] The researchers claim that a Mexican journalist, Rafael Cabrera, had also been targeted and they think that the software could have been used in Israel, Turkey, Thailand, Qatar, Kenya, Uzbekistan, Mozambique, Morocco, Yemen, Hungary, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, and Bahrain.[8]

 

Citizen Lab and Lookout notified Apple's security team. Apple patched the flaws within ten days and released an update for iOS.[18] A patch for macOS was released six days later.[19]

 

In 2017, the Citizen Lab researchers revealed that NSO exploit links may have been sent to Mexican scientists and public health campaigners.[20] The targets supported measures to reduce childhood obesity, including Mexico's "Soda Tax."

 

In July 2017, the international team assembled to investigate the 2014 Iguala mass kidnapping publicly complained they thought they were being surveilled by the Mexican government.[21] They claim that the Mexican government utilized Pegasus to send them messages about funeral homes that contained links which, when clicked, granted the government the ability to surreptitiously listen to the investigators.[21] The Mexican government has repeatedly denied any unauthorized hacking.[21]

 

In June 2018, an Israeli court indicted a former employee of NSO Group for allegedly stealing a copy of Pegasus and attempting to sell it online for $50-Million worth of cryptocurrency.[22]

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSO_Group

Anonymous ID: ab846c Sept. 18, 2018, 8:44 a.m. No.3072983   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>3072767

 

Not trying to be mean about it, but True Pundit has had many stories that were flat out wrong or misleading. Lately, seems to be getting somewhat better. That being said, many anons here still remember the older days.

 

"Is he perfect, not quite, but closer than almost all others."

 

This quote is either a true believer, or working for True Pundit.