#EU#Poland#Cybersecurity#PoliceState#Surveillance#Pegasus#NSO: "Poland's prosecutor general told the parliament on Wednesday that powerful Pegasus spyware was used against hundreds of people during the former government in Poland, among them elected officials.
Adam Bodnar told lawmakers that he found the scale of the surveillance “shocking and depressing.”
“It is sad for me that even in this room I am speaking to people who were victims of this system,” Bodnar told the Sejm, the lower house of parliament.
Bodnar, who is also the justice minister, didn't specify who exactly was subject to surveillance by the spyware. His office said the information was confidential.
Bodnar was presenting information that the prosecutor general's office sent last week to the Sejm and Senate. The data showed that Pegasus was used in the cases of 578 people from 2017 to 2022, and that it was used by three separate government agencies: the Central Anticorruption Bureau, the Military Counterintelligence Service and the Internal Security Agency.
The data show that it was used against six people in 2017; 100 in 2018; 140 in 2019; 161 in 2020; 162 in 2021; and then nine in 2022, when it stopped."
A U.S. court has ordered Israeli #spyware company #NSO Group to disclose the source code and functionality details of its #Pegasus spyware to Meta (Facebook/#WhatsApp).
Sooo now that members of the European Parliament (#security and #defence committee) found themselves to be targeted with #spyware, will we finally see stricter regulation of these dangerous pieces of software?
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Israel #NSO Group's #Pegasus#spyware targeted nearly 3 dozen journalists, activists, and lawyers in Jordan, raising concerns about privacy violations and government abuse.
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The #NSO Group raised security alarms this week, and once again, it’s the devastatingly powerful #Pegasus malware that was deployed in Jordan to spy on journalists and activists.
In a video from Gaza, Shalev Hulio, the former CEO of Pegasus spyware firm NSO Group, announced millions for a new venture called Dream Security.
Dream Security was co-founded by Michael Eisenberg an Israeli American venture capitalist.
Former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, dubbed “Austria’s mini-Trump” is also a Dream co-founder. The firm has deep ties to the Israeli and international far-right.
Out of a staff of 70, 13 are former NSO Group staff.
Assessing the #security of computer systems is really hard because of "known unknowns" and "unknown unknowns". For example, there are lots of reports about #NSO#Pegasus being found on #iPhone but few about #Android. One might be tempted to conclude that Android is more secure. The truth is unfortunately much harder to pin down. For example, it is harder to detect and confirm Pegasus on Android, although it is clear that there have been plenty of infections on both platforms.
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「 A Times investigation reveals how Israel reaped diplomatic gains around the world from NSO’s Pegasus spyware — a tool America itself purchased but is now trying to ban 」
@AAKL Unfortunately their government customers keep them flush with cash. Their fellow commercial spyware vendors Cytrox and Intellexa are also blacklisted by the United States but continue kicking. Amnesty International and European Investigative Collaborations (EIC) released a joint report on "Predator Files" on 05 October 2023 detailing the pervasiveness of surveillance industry and and how ineffective EU regulation has been in controlling it. Link:https://securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2023/10/global-predator-files-investigation-reveals-catastrophic-failure-to-regulate-surveillance-trade/