Israeli spyware company NSO Group placed on US blacklist | US foreign policy | The Guardian

Decision against company at heart of Pegasus project reflects deep concern about impact of spyware on US national security interests

I wonder how this might affect US relations with Israel. It seems likely that the US intelligence community must have known about this during the Trump years, but I don’t recall any talk of this.

#politics #USA #Israel #spying #NSO #Pegasus

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/03/nso-group-pegasus-spyware-us-blacklist

I Was Hacked. The #Spyware Used Against Me Makes Us All Vulnerable.

source: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/24/insider/hacking-nso-surveillance.html

But in a #world where we store so much of our personal and professional lives in the devices we carry in our pockets, and where #surveillance #software continues to become ever more sophisticated, we are all increasingly vulnerable.

#Trojan #NSO #journalism #press #HumanRights #Justice #CyberCrime #MiddleEast #privacy #news #problem #politics #economy

I Was Hacked. The Spyware Used Against Me Makes Us All Vulnerable.

Invasive hacking software sold to countries to fight terrorism is easily abused. Researchers say my phone was hacked twice, probably by Saudi Arabia.

Comment PIRATER Jeff Bezos avec un même ? (histoire vraie)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZbVW04Ohjk

#Piratage #JeffBezos #WhatsApp #iOS #Android #NSO #Pegasus #Journalistes #Activistes #Politiques #Géopolitique #Israël #ArabieSaoudite #Maroc #France

Female journalists and activists say they had their private photos shared on #social #media by governments seeking to intimidate and silence them.

Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/i-will-not-be-silenced-women-targeted-hack-leak-attacks-n1275540

#GhadaOueiss, a Lebanese broadcast #journalist at #Al-Jazeera, was eating dinner at home with her husband last June when she received a message from a colleague telling her to check #Twitter. Oueiss opened up the #account and was horrified: A private photo taken when she was wearing a bikini in a jacuzzi was being circulated by a network of accounts, accompanied by false claims that the photos were taken at her boss’s house.

#news #security #privacy #nso #pegasus #smartphone #technology #surveillance #spy #press #journalism #cyberwarfare #trojan #humanrights

Women allege that NSO spyware was used to steal and leak their private photos

Female journalists and activists say they had their private photos shared on social media by governments seeking to intimidate and silence them.

https://thewire.in/tech/nso-group-founders-pegasus-spyware

Interesting: We started with "if you're not a terrorist, you don't need to worry". Now we are suddenly at "somebody got to do the dirty work". I wonder what comes next week...

#Pegasus #NSO

‘Somebody Has to Do the Dirty Work’: NSO Founders Defend Pegasus Spyware

Hulio and Lavie’s version of the Silicon Valley story starts in a renovated chicken coop on a kibbutz in central Israel. Eleven years later, NSO is a 750-employee company that is valued by investors at over $1.5 billion.

● NEWS ● #CounterPunch #NSO ☞ Pegasus Rides Again: the #NSOGroup , Spyware and Human Rights https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/07/26/pegasus-rides-again-the-nso-group-spyware-and-human-rights/

Pegasus Rides Again: the NSO Group, Spyware and Human Rights

They keep insisting they don’t do it. But companies such as the Israeli NSO Group are global vendors for regimes, whatever stripe or colour, for surveillance tools to spy on those they deem of interest.  The 2013 revelations by Edward Snowden that...

The Insecurity Industry ~ The greatest danger to national security has become the companies that claim to protect it

https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/ns-oh-god-how-is-this-legal

'This will be the #future: a #world of #people too busy #playing with their #phones to even notice that someone else #controls them.'
#edwardsnowden #edsnowden #snowden #insecurity #industry #danger #national #security #companies #computer #spyware #code #technology #ios #intrusive #software #hacking #pegasus #project #nso #group #capitalism #smartphones #legal #tracking #device

We Need To Talk About The Insecurity Industry

The greatest danger to national security has become the companies claiming to protect it

#NSO Says ‘Enough Is Enough,’ Will No Longer Talk to the Press About Damning Reports https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7exdx/nso-says-enough-is-enough-will-no-longer-talk-to-the-press-about-damning-reports

NSO Says ‘Enough Is Enough,’ Will No Longer Talk to the Press About Damning Reports

The Israeli surveillance technology maker denied that the list, which underpins a series of bombshell stories in several media outlets, has anything to do with the company.

Secure data transfer #guide for #paranoid journalists and hacktivists ...

Prologue (Why we live in the dark #digital age!)

The #Pegasus #scandal showed that no one took #Snowden's revelations seriously. Meanwhile, it is not only the state actor #NSA that monitors everyone but a private company in #Israel the #NSO Group. Of course, always installing the latest updates on the device is of no use if the #intelligence agencies withhold the #security vulnerabilities from us, which does not increase security but endangers it.

The #problem is that today, even with a degree in #computer science, it is almost impossible to keep an overview of the entire security situation, as it has become far too complex. You would need a very simple tool, where the wrong usage is almost impossible. A #laptop or #smartphone is out of the question because even experts can only detect manipulated #firmware in complicated, time-consuming processes.

Solution

In order not to be monitored digitally, one works as analog as possible at the destination. Records are handwritten on paper, which is not left unattended anywhere. For the transmission of the records to the headquarter, they are photographed with a digital camera and stored on an SD card. This SD card is then inserted into a #RaspberryPi where the images are encrypted. The Raspberry Pi connects to the #darknet (VPN, i2p or TOR) via the smartphone's #wifi. From this file drop in the darknet, the headquarters can download the data. Afterwards, you should destroy all records and the SD card so that no contaminating data can be found during a police search.

The choice of darknet must be adapted to the destination country. Special bridges are needed to tunnel through the great firewall of China. Instead of using your own smartphone to connect to the #Internet, it's better to use a free WiFi connection if one is available. A micro SD card is easy to hide. It can be smuggled into a neighboring country by a trusted person and the transfer can take place there. This means that no suspicious electronic traces lead back to you.

#journalism #freedom #press #humanrights #surveillance #news #internet #activism #instructions #i2p #TOR #vpn #encryption #hacktivism #policestate #protest #economy #politics #exploit #cyberwarfare

25.07.2021 Pegasus zum Zweiten

Einige Betroffene identifiziert

Vor wenigen Tagen hatten wir über ein Interview mit unserem Ehrenmitglieds Edward Snowden über das Abhör- und Überwachungstool der israelischen Firma NSO berichtet. Nun liegen ein paar Namen von betroffenen JournalistInnen vor.

Unter den 50.000 sind laut "Guardian" auch Mitarbeiter der Nachrichtenagenturen AFP, Reuters und AP, der Zeitungen "New York Times", "Le Monde", "El País" und der Sender Al-Dschasira, Radio Free Europe und CNN. Die "Washington Post" berichtete über eine Liste, auf der auch die Nummern von Staatsoberhäuptern und Ministerpräsidenten, Mitgliedern arabischer Königsfamilien, Diplomaten und Geschäftsleuten. ntv berichtet nun genauer über 4 von 50.000 Menschen, die von dieser Software überwacht wurden.

Dazu gehören zwei Reporter des ungarischen Investigativmediums Direkt36, eine bekannte Reporterin von "Le Monde", bei der die Angriffe wohl aus Marokko kamen und Hatice Cengiz, die Verlobte des ermordeten saudi-arabischen Journalisten Jamal Khashoggi. Ihr Handy sei vier Tage nach dem Mord an Khashoggi mit der Schadsoftware Pegasus angegriffen worden.

Zu dem letzten Fall teilte sogar die NSO Group mit, dass die Technologie des Unternehmens "in keiner Weise" mit dem Mord an dem Journalisten in Verbindung gestanden habe. Meldet sich hier das schlechte Gewissen oder nur die Rechtsabteilung?

Mehr dazu bei https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Behoerden-missbrauchen-wohl-Spaehsoftware-article22690050.html
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Link im Tor-Netzwerk: nnksciarbrfsg3ud.onion/de/articles/7715-20210725-pegasus-zum-zweiten.htm
Tags: #Cyberwar #PegasusProjekt #Israel #NSO #weltweit #EdwardSnowden #Lauschangriff #Überwachung #Vorratsdatenspeicherung #Videoüberwachung #Rasterfahndung #Datenbanken #Freizügigkeit #Unschuldsvermutung #Verhaltensänderung #Verbraucherdatenschutz #Datenschutz #Datensicherheit #Journalisten #Politiker

TOUS SURVEILLÉS : LE SCANDALE PEGASUS SECOUE LA PLANÈTE

"Violations des droits de l’homme, surveillance de masse, espionnage, et crise géopolitique. L’affaire Pegasus est donc loin d’être une simple “affaire d’espionnage de...

https://video.blast-info.fr/videos/watch/8b0922b0-a221-4eaf-aa63-2014b7adf13b

#espionnage #NSO #Politique #surveillance #numérique

TOUS SURVEILLÉS : LE SCANDALE PEGASUS SECOUE LA PLANÈTE

Soutenez Blast, nouveau média indépendant : https://www.blast-info.fr/soutenir "Violations des droits de l’homme, surveillance de masse, espionnage, et crise géopolitique. L’affaire Pegasus est donc loin d’être une simple “affaire d’espionnage de...

Forensic Methodology Report: How to catch NSO Group’s Pegasus

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2021/07/forensic-methodology-report-how-to-catch-nso-groups-pegasus/

NSO Group claims that its Pegasus spyware is only used to “investigate terrorism and crime” and “leaves no traces whatsoever”. This Forensic Methodology Report shows that neither of these statements are true. This report accompanies the release of the Pegasus Project, a collaborative investigation that involves more than 80 journalists from 17 media organizations in 10 countries coordinated by Forbidden Stories with technical support of Amnesty International’s Security Lab.[1]\
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Amnesty International’s Security Lab has performed in-depth forensic analysis of numerous mobile devices from human rights defenders (HRDs) and journalists around the world. This research has uncovered widespread, persistent and ongoing unlawful surveillance and human rights abuses perpetrated using NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware.

This tool tells you if NSO’s Pegasus spyware targeted your phone

https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/19/toolkit-nso-pegasus-iphone-android/

#surveillance #spyware #malware #privacy #nso #journalism #amnesty #amnesty-international

Forensic Methodology Report: How to catch NSO Group’s Pegasus

NSO Group claims that its Pegasus spyware is only used to “investigate terrorism and crime” and “leaves no traces whatsoever”. This Forensic Methodology Report shows that neither of these statements are true. This report accompanies the release of...

‘If You’re Not A Criminal, Don’t Be Afraid’—NSO CEO On ‘Insane’ Hacking Allegations Facing $1 Billion Spyware Business

F. U.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/07/22/nso-group-ceo-defends-1-billion-spyware-company-against-pegasus-project-hacking-allegations/
#nso

‘If You’re Not A Criminal, Don’t Be Afraid’—NSO CEO On ‘Insane’ Hacking Allegations Facing $1 Billion Spyware Business

The Israeli entrepreneur behind the Pegasus surveillance tool says it is “insane” to link a leak of 50,000 potential spyware targets to his company.

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2021/07/20/a-case-against-security-nihilism/
#security #crypto #pegasus #nso

A case against security nihilism

This week a group of global newspapers is running a series of articles detailing abuses of NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. If you haven’t seen any of these articles, they’re worth re…

Wikileaks Editor-In-Chief: Pegasus leaks show nobody is safe from espionage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs0Ag8TiL9U
https://www.rt.com/shows/going-underground/529787-kristinn-hrafnsson-rt-going-underground/

#goingunderground #AfshinRattansi #KristinnHrafnnson #wikileaks #editor-in-chief #publisher #journalism #espionage #pegasus #spyware #leaks #nso #israeli #software #global #surveillance #julianassange #assange #us #extradition #detention #dropthecharges #humanrights #violation #freeassange #weareallassange #RichardMurphy #uk #taxes

Can someone inform Freddy that he can check his infected #smartphone with this #tool?

-> https://github.com/mvt-project/mvt

It's for #iPhone and #Android. His xmpp account isn't working anymore since he is infected :(

#security #software #surveillance #check #mobile #privacy #nso #pegasus #malware #news #infection

GitHub - mvt-project/mvt: MVT (Mobile Verification Toolkit) helps conducting forensics of mobile devices in order to find signs of a potential compromise.

MVT (Mobile Verification Toolkit) helps conducting forensics of mobile devices in order to find signs of a potential compromise. - GitHub - mvt-project/mvt: MVT (Mobile Verification Toolkit) helps ...

● NEWS ● #DemocracyNow ☞ Amnesty Int’l Calls for Moratorium on Private Spyware After Israeli #NSO#Group Pegasus Revelations https://www.democracynow.org/2021/7/20/pegasus_spyware_israel_nso_group

Amnesty Int’l Calls for Moratorium on Private Spyware After Israeli NSO Group Pegasus Revelations

Calls are growing for stricter regulations on the use of surveillance technology after revelations that countries have used the powerful Pegasus spyware against politicians, journalists and activists around the world. The Pegasus software, sold by...

21.07.2021 Das Pegasus Projekt

Leben unter ständiger Überwachung

Das hat auch unser Ehrenmitglied Edward Snowden erschüttert: Wahrscheinlich mehr als 50.000 Telefonnummern von Journalisten und Politikern werden (fast ständig) professionell abgehört. Nicht, dass ihn die technische Möglichkeit überrascht hat - das kannte er aus seiner beruflichen Tätigkeit bei Untergruppen der NSA und das hat er 2013 der Weltöffentlichkeit bekannt gemacht.

Der Skandal ist, dass das (illegale!) Abhören zu einem "normalen" Geschehen geworden ist. In einem Interview des Guardian, deutsche Übersetzung in der Zeit, sagt er:

Es ist schockierend. Wir sprechen hier über etwas in der Größenordnung von 50.000 Telefonnummern aus einer ganzen Reihe Länder, über etwas sehr Aggressives. Es geht um Journalisten, es geht um Regierungsvertreter, es geht um Vertreter der Opposition, es geht um Menschenrechtsaktivisten. Es ist furchtbar. Ich habe natürlich seit Langem den Verdacht, dass Missbrauch mit Überwachungsmöglichkeiten getrieben wird. ...

Was das Pegasus-Project zeigt, ist, dass die NSO Group in Wirklichkeit Repräsentant eines neuen Markts für Schadware ist. Es handelt sich um ein gewinnorientiert arbeitendes Unternehmen. Denen sind Gesetze egal, denen sind Regeln egal. Sie verkaufen an jeden verlässlichen Kunden, bei dem sie das Gefühl haben damit durchzukommen und dass man ihnen nicht auf die Schliche kommt.

Noch immer sind investigative Reporterinnen und Reporter aus zahlreichen Ländern dabei, zu herauszufinden wo, wie und gegen wen die Spionagesoftware Pegasus des israelischen Unternehmens NSO von Geheimdiensten und Polizeibehörden weltweit eingesetzt wird. Ausgangspunkt war eine Liste mit mehr als 50.000 Handynummern aus rund 50 Ländern.

Damit bewahrheitet sich die Aussage Edward Snowdens über den Spion in der Hosentasche, mit der er vor einiger Zeit vor der Nutzung von Smartphones warnte. Selbst David Kaye, ehemaliger Sonderberichterstatter der Vereinten Nationen für Meinungsfreiheit, sagte, die globale Überwachungsindustrie sei außer Kontrolle geraten. Das verwanzen von 50.000 Häusern ist mühsam und illegal - und inzwischen völlig unnötig, wie sich nun zeigt.

Mehr dazu bei https://www.zeit.de/digital/2021-07/edward-snowden-spionage-software-pegasus-handy-ueberwachung-diktaturen
und https://www.zeit.de/schwerpunkte/pegasus-project
Link zu dieser Seite: https://www.aktion-freiheitstattangst.org/de/articles/7711-20210721-das-pegasus-projekt.htm
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Tags: #Cyberwar #PegasusProjekt #Israel #NSO #weltweit #EdwardSnowden #Lauschangriff #Überwachung #Vorratsdatenspeicherung #Videoüberwachung #Rasterfahndung #Datenbanken #Freizügigkeit #Unschuldsvermutung #Verhaltensänderung #Verbraucherdatenschutz #Datenschutz #Datensicherheit #Journalisten #Politiker

#Pegasus: French #President #Macron identified as #spyware target

source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57907258

Numbers on the leaked list are also said to include those of President Baram Salih of #Iraq and #SouthAfrica's Cyril Ramaphosa, as well as the current prime ministers of #Pakistan, #Egypt and #Morocco, and the King of Morocco.

More than 600 government officials and politicians from 34 countries are on the list, which is said to contain 50,000 numbers.

Who could have guessed that, through their criminal inactivity, the politicians themselves have become the victims of their insufficient policies. Let's see if they now act against surveillance or just protect themselves.

#security #privacy #nso #software #surveillance #politics #news #leak #humanrights

Pegasus: French President Macron identified as spyware target

The president's phone number was found on a list of numbers that were potential phone hacking targets.

● NEWS ● #TruthOut #NSO #Israel #espionage ☞ Massive Data Leak Shows Israeli Spyware Targeted Journalists Around the World https://truthout.org/articles/massive-data-leak-shows-israeli-spyware-targeted-journalists-around-the-world/

Massive Data Leak Shows Israeli Spyware Targeted Journalists Around the World

Governments are hacking the phones of reporters and activists, according to a wide-ranging investigation.