The Rwandan government has deployed the #NSO Group's #Pegasus spyware against past political opponents, its own ministers, and even the family of a former presidential candidate
Reporters from Forbidden Stories discovered the attacks in a leaked list of phone numbers targeted with Pegasus spyware.
#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).
NSO Group says that it only sells Pegasus to authorized government customers," Ó Cearbhaill told The Register. "Our Security Lab has documented the massive scale and breadth of the use of Pegasus against human rights defenders and journalists across the world.🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
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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