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Amnesty International has found evidence of journalists in India being targeted with Pegasus spyware. The discovery comes amid what the rights group claims is a "targeted crackdown on freedom of expression."

The website of Israeli company NSO Group which features Pegasus spyware on a smartphone Spyware produced and sold by the Israeli company NSO Group has been found on the phones of journalists, activists and politicians High-profile journalists in India have been targeted with the invasive spyware Pegasus, according to a report published by Amnesty International on Thursday.

The civil rights watchdog carried out forensic investigations on the iPhones belonging to Siddharth Varadarajan, the founding editor of The Wire, and Anand Mangnale, the South Asia editor of The Organized Crime and Corruption Report Project (OCCRP).

"Our latest findings show that increasingly, journalists in India face the threat of unlawful surveillance simply for doing their jobs, alongside other tools of repression including imprisonment under draconian laws, smear campaigns, harassment, and intimidation," Donncha O Cearbhaill, the head of Amnesty's Security Lab, said.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

what steps would one need to take to avoid having such spyware installed onto their phones? and is there any way to know if such spyware is already installed on one's device?

asking for a friend.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

thanks. i did see this in a parallel thread, but I'm wary of allowing third-party emulators such as imazing full access to my devices.

and then theres the point of an ounce of prevention. how does this spyware even install itself on devices in the first place? what's my condom here?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

can grapheneos prevent pegasus spyware ?