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ISOC denies using Israeli Pegasus spyware to track Thai activists
THURSDAY, JULY 18, 2024
The Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC) on Thursday denied that it had ever used the Pegasus spyware of Israel's NSO Group to steal information and track the mobile phones of Thai activists.
WhatsApp now lets you hide locked chats to stop looking suspicious
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 01, 2023
WhatsApp has been letting us create password-protected chats for a few months now, to make sure certain conversations are safe from being accessed, even if someone else unlocks your phone.
A UAE agency put Pegasus spyware on phone of Jamal Khashoggis wife months before his murder, new forensics show
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2021
Emirates flight attendant Hanan Elatr surrendered her two Android cellphones, laptop and passwords when security agents surrounded her at the Dubai airport. They drove her, blindfolded and in handcuffs, to an interrogation cell on the edge of the city, she said. There, she was questioned all night and into the morning about her fiance, Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Pegasus spyware used to hack U.S. diplomats working abroad
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 04, 2021
WASHINGTON - Apple has alerted 11 U.S. Embassy employees that their iPhones had been hacked in recent months by Pegasus spyware from NSO Group, an Israel-based company that licenses software to government clients in dozens of countries that allows them to secretly steal files, eavesdrop on conversations and track the movements of its targets, according to people familiar with the notifications.
Apple sues Israeli spyware maker NSO over its Pegasus spyware
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2021
Apple announced Tuesday that it has sued Israel-based NSO Group over the use of its Pegasus spyware to attack Apple devices, the latest move in an escalating global campaign to curb surveillance abuses against smartphone users.
Biden administration blacklists NSO Group over Pegasus spyware
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 04, 2021
The United States on Wednesday added the Israeli spyware company NSO Group to its "entity list," a federal blacklist prohibiting the company from receiving American technologies, after determining that its phone-hacking tools had been used by foreign governments to "maliciously target" government officials, activists, journalists, academics and embassy workers around the world.
Dubai ruler used Pegasus spyware to hack princess, U.K. court rules
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 07, 2021
The ruler of Dubai used NSO Groups Pegasus spyware to hack the phones of his estranged wife, Princess Haya, and the closest members of her inner circle, a U.K. high court judgment released Wednesday shows.
Private Israeli spyware used to hack cellphones of journalists, activists worldwide
MONDAY, JULY 19, 2021
Military-grade spyware licensed by an Israeli firm to governments for tracking terrorists and criminals was used in attempted and successful hacks of 37 smartphones belonging to journalists, human rights activists, business executives and two women close to murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to an investigation by The Washington Post and 16 media partners.
Google to restrict advertising of tracking technology, spyware
FRIDAY, JULY 10, 2020
Google is changing its policies next month to restrict advertising for spyware and other unauthorized tracking technology.
Spyware found on journalist's phone days after maker's anti-abuse pledge
MONDAY, JUNE 22, 2020
Technologists who discovered spyware made by an Israeli company targeting journalists in several authoritarian countries said they found the same spyware used against a Moroccan journalist three days after the company announced a policy against such uses.