![]() It comes to your office, your home, your bed, every corner of your existence. One is a journalist who said it's a tool that destroys the essential codes of civilization. GROSS: Yeah, I want to refer to two of the people quoted in the article. And in a particularly creepy twist, it can flip on your microphone and your camera without you knowing it and start recording what you're saying and take images of what you're doing. It can grab your passwords and usernames and grab all of your contacts. It can see where you've been in the world. What is this spyware that we're talking about - Pegasus - capable of doing?ĬRAIG TIMBERG: Pegasus can do anything on your smartphone that you can do. But first, let's talk a little bit about your reporting. I want to start by saying that the NSO Group refutes a lot of what The Washington Post has reported, and we'll get to those denials a little bit later. This year, he's also been reporting on QAnon and the forum TheDonald.win, whose chatter about how to come prepared with weapons and build a gallows at the Capitol on January 6 should've been sufficient warning to the FBI and police about what to expect.Ĭraig Timberg, welcome back to FRESH AIR. He covers technology for the Post, specializing in privacy, security and surveillance. My guest, Craig Timberg, was one of the two coordinators of the project at the Post and one of its lead reporters. The human rights group Amnesty International and a Paris-based journalism nonprofit called Forbidden Stories shared the forensic analysis of these devices with a consortium of more than 80 reporters from media organizations around the world, including The Washington Post. But apparently, the reality is that the spyware was widely misused. ![]() The company says that the Pegasus spyware it sells to governments is intended to collect data from suspected criminals and terrorists. A forensic analysis revealed that the phones had been penetrated by military-grade spyware called Pegasus, which had been licensed to governments by the private Israeli security company NSO Group. These people included journalists, activists, business executives and two women close to the murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Your worst nightmare about how a smartphone can be hacked to spy on its owner became a reality for 37 people around the world whose phones were infected by spyware or whose phones had an attempted penetration.
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