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Russia appears to be targeting journalists with spyware known as Pegasus.
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Pegasus is a “zero-click” software, hacking phones by sending texts that don’t need to be opened.
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The software has targeted dozens of journalists, activists, and politicians in recent years.
Obviously we need multiple adversarial LLMs battling this out. Humans are not solving this problem.
What are the comments in here… Lol. Anyone able to give a level-headed take on this article/topic? Cheers
Pegasus is an Israeli product, are they selling it to Russia?
One of the key reasons for Israel’s reluctance to help Ukraine win the war militarily is simple: It still works closely with Russia.
Russia is important for Israel’s military operations in neighboring Syria, where Israel has been carrying out airstrikes against Iran-backed militias, mainly those of Hezbollah.
Yeah either something else is involved here or Israel is indeed selling Pegasus to literally any government that requests it. Let’s not forget that NSO group is state funded so those deals clearly do have the approval from the Israeli government.
Nothing to worry folks, here’s what NSO said when it was used to target Khashoggi’s inner circle as he was murdered and dismembered in the Saudi consulate:
NSO denies any wrongdoing. It says the software is intended for use against criminals and terrorists and is made available only to military, law enforcement and intelligence agencies from countries with good human rights records
This is just false.
Pegasus is not a “zero click software” which does not really mean anything. It’s a spyware
If you don’t have physical access to an unlocked device you need to exploit a vulnerability to install it. And what a lucky day, Apple has again failed to solve their zero click vulnerability around ImageIO and the sandbox of iMessages. This type of vulnerability has been recurrent for Apple products
I don’t really get what you’re trying to say but I do wonder if maybe an internal apple employee is somehow working with the company that makes Pegasus and that’s why they continue to have exploits.
No Pegasus and the device exploits have really nothing to do with each others. And it’s not a company that makes Pegasus (it is, see below)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSO_Group
NSO is a company?