Скачать или смотреть One year of the Pegasus Project: Hacking Tools Multiplying Daily, Threat Growing — Sandrine Rigaud

On July 18, 2021, revelations of the “Pegasus Project” shocked the world. The product of a collaborative investigation by multiple media organisations including  The Wire in India, the Guardian in the UK and Washington Post, details of a chilling surveillance attack emerged. A zero click hacking tool called Pegasus had been developed by the Israel based NSO Group. Governments around the world had bought and were using Pegasus. In India, investigations revealed that several activists, academics, journalists, opposition members and lawyers were targeted using Pegasus by exploiting a vulnerability in the WhatsApp platform. The attack is invisible. Once “infected”, your phone becomes your worst enemy. From within your pocket, it instantly delivers your private conversations, personal photos, almost every detail about you. Amnesty International’s Security Lab used digital forensic tests to confirm evidence of targeting and infections on scores of phones around the world. Today a year has passed since the revelations. The Pegasus Project was a collaboration by journalists from 17 media organizations in 10 countries, coordinated by Forbidden Stories. Mitali Mukherjee spoke with Sandrine Rigaud editor in chief of Forbidden Stories and the one who coordinated the “Pegasus Project” on the threats and challenges that still remain.

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