Pegasus, A spyware

All about Pegasus spyware and NSO group .

1. Pegasus
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2. Pegasus
Software - Spyware
Pegasus is a spyware developed by the
Israeli cyberarms firm NSO Group that
can be covertly installed on mobile
phones running most versions of iOS and
Android.
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3. Spyware
Spyware is software with
malicious behavior that aims
to gather information about a
person or organization and
send it to another entity in a
way that harms the user.
Adware
System monitor
Web tracking
Trojans
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4. Target Devices
It can be covertly installed
on mobile phones running
most versions of iOS and
Android.
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5. Investigation
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Project Pegesus
The Pegasus Project is an international investigative journalism initiative that revealed governments' espionage on journalists, opposition
politicians, activists, business people and others using the private NSO Group's Pegasus spyware.
Pegasus is ostensibly marketed for
surveillance of "serious crimes and
terrorism". In 2020, a target list of
50,000 phone numbers leaked to
Forbidden Stories, and an analysis
revealed the list contained the numbers
of leading opposition politicians, human
rights activists, journalists, lawyers and
other political dissidents

6. Investigation Outcomes
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Project Pegesus
The Pegasus Project is an international investigative journalism initiative that revealed governments' espionage on journalists, opposition
politicians, activists, business people and others using the private NSO Group's Pegasus spyware.
More than half of these phones that
were inspected by the Amnesty
International's cybersecurity team
revealed forensic evidence of the
Pegasus spyware, a zero-click Trojan
virus developed by NSO Group. This
malware provides the attacker full
access to the targeted smartphone, its
data, images, photographs and
conversations as well as camera,
microphone and geolocation.

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Vulnerabilities
CVE-2016-4655: Information leak in
kernel
CVE-2016-4656: Kernel memory
corruption leads to jailbreak
CVE-2016-4657: Memory corruption in
the webkit
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8. ThreeTwo
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Misuse in India
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In late 2019,
Facebook initiated a
suit against NSO,
claiming that
Pegasus had been
used to intercept the
WhatsApp
communications of a
number of activists,
journalists, and
bureaucrats in India,
leading to
accusations that the
Indian government
was involved
11 phone numbers
associated with a
female employee of
the Supreme Court
of India and her
immediate family,
who accused the
former Chief Justice
of India, Ranjan
Gogoi, of sexual
harrasment, are also
allegedly found on a
database indicating
possibility of their
phones being
snooped
Phone numbers of
Indian ministers,
opposition leaders,
ex-election
commissioners and
journalists were
allegedly found on a
database of NSO
hacking targets by
Project Pegasus in
2021.

9. NSO Group develops best-in-class technology to
help government agencies detect and prevent
terrorism and crime.
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NSO GROUP

10. Prevent terrorism, including gun violence, car bombs, and suicide
bombers at transportation hubs, public parks, markets, concert venues,
sports arenas, and other public areas
Break up pedophilia, sex- and drug-trafficking rings, and money-
laundering operations
Find and rescue kidnapped children
Assist emergency search and rescue (SAR) teams in locating survivors
trapped under collapsed buildings in the wake of natural disasters or
construction failures
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NSO products are used exclusively by government intelligence and law enforcement
agencies to fight crime and terror.

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12. The list is not a list of targets or potential targets of Pegasus.
The numbers in the list are not related to NSO group.
Any claim that a name in the list is necessarily related to a Pegasus target or Pegasus potential
target is erroneous and false.
NSO is a technology company. We do not operate the system, nor do we have access to the data
of our customers, yet they are obligated to provide us with such information under
investigations.
NSO will thoroughly investigate any credible proof of misuse of its technologies, as we always
had, and will shut down the system where necessary.
NSO will continue its mission of saving lives, helping governments around the world prevent terror
attacks, break up pedophilia, sex, and drug-trafficking rings, locate missing and kidnapped
children, locate survivors trapped under collapsed buildings, and protect airspace against
disruptive penetration by dangerous drones.
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13. Thank you
Have a great
day ahead.
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