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Military-grade Israeli spyware was used in attempted and successful hacks of 37 smartphones belonging to journalists, human rights activists, business executives and the fiancee of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a global investigation finds. https://t.co/X0LbRPAy0l
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 18, 2021
BREAKING: massive, global leak of the targets of NSO Group's Pegasus spyware. *huge deal.*
— John Scott-Railton (@jsrailton) July 18, 2021
Forensic investigation by @AmnestyTech
in collaboration with @FbdnStories reporters.
We @citizenlab conducted peer review.
Here's an explainer THREAD.https://t.co/TasFCy5EGW pic.twitter.com/rGGKAkfSry
NEW: The phone number of Biden’s Iran deal negotiator Rob Malley was among the list of 50,000 phone numbers obtained by the Pegasus project, which includes journalists and human rights activists infected with spyware by the Israeli firm NSO 1/ https://t.co/qW758p7A47
— John Hudson (@John_Hudson) July 19, 2021
Journalists and @amnesty have had access to over 50k phone numbers of people of interest by clients of spyware company #NSO.
— Amnesty Tech (@AmnestyTech) July 18, 2021
It includes world leaders, activists and journalists.
Here's how our Security Lab analysed the phones -https://t.co/qCOXMhvTPt
The charming folks at Israel's NSO Group were asked by a number of mostly authoritarian governments, among them Saudi Arabia and the UAE, to spy on the phones of more than 180 journalists around the world (myself included). https://t.co/7mKc9RQF3G
— Gregg Carlstrom (@glcarlstrom) July 18, 2021
This groundbreaking reporting from @Guardian, @WashingtonPost, and many others demonstrates what we and others have been saying for years: NSO’s dangerous spyware is used to commit horrible human rights abuses all around the world and it must be stopped.https://t.co/dMD0wKjceF
— Will Cathcart (@wcathcart) July 18, 2021
The @NSOgroup is a cyber surveillance company that claims that its Pegasus spyware is only used for legitimate criminal & anti-terrorism investigations.
— Amnesty International (@amnesty) July 18, 2021
Last we checked, using NSO’s spyware to target journalists & activists around the🌏is NOT a legitimate criminal investigation.
Read about the Biden, Trump, and Obama officials who accepted blood money from the NSO group to bury any efforts at accountability -- even *after* their involvement in the death and detention of journalists and rights defenders around the world! https://t.co/gXIKDpmqUE
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) July 19, 2021
The Israeli firm NSO GROUP was behind the spyware used to hack journalists & human rights activists, a @WashingtonPost investigation reveals.
— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) July 18, 2021
Not included in the story:
NSO GROUP paid @SKDK (BIDEN adviser ANITA DUNN's firm) for advice until late 2019. https://t.co/UMiTf3O2dq
Reminder: Israeli spyware used to target journalists all over the world is made by NSO Group, founded by veterans of Israeli military’s Unit 8200. That’s the same unit @KaplanAssaf proudly worked for before @Keir_Starmer hired him into @UKLabour HQ!! https://t.co/6J1BhvMfAV
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) July 19, 2021