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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 532

The Citizen Lab

Illustrative: A person holding a smartphone showing the NSO Group Technologies website next to a screen with the company's logo (T. Schneider/Shutterstock.com)
February 1, 2024, 2:59 pm
At least 30 phones of journalists, activists hacked in Jordan with Israeli tech
Forensic probe finds infiltrations were done with NSO’s Pegasus spyware; Jordanian government not named in report, but activists say Amman most likely culprit
By Frank Bajak
iPhone 14s on display at an Apple Store at The Grove in Los Angeles, Sept. 16, 2022 (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
September 8, 2023, 4:53 pm
Apple releases major security update to counter Israeli firm NSO’s Pegasus spyware
Researchers say newly discovered system flaw is being ‘actively exploited’ to deliver malware onto iPhones and iPads; recommend all users immediately update devices
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Human rights activist Ahmed Mansoor shows Associated Press journalists a screenshot of a spoof text message, used to attempt to hack him, in Ajman, United Arab Emirates, August 25, 2016. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)
May 23, 2023, 5:50 pm
Report: Israel nixed QuaDream’s spyware deal with Morocco, leading to firm’s closure
Haaretz says the Defense Ministry cracked down on company’s sales of cellphone hacking software overseas, following global fallout from similar NSO Group activity
By ToI Staff
The NSO Group logo is seen on a smartphone placed on a laptop keyboard. (Mundissima/Alamy)
April 18, 2023, 8:07 pm
Mexico continues to target activists with Israeli-made Pegasus spyware — NY Times
Citizen Lab watchdog group says country is most prolific user of tool; publishes new insights into NSO Group’s updated targeting of iPhones
By ToI Staff
File: Hungarian investigative journalist Szabolcs Panyi, whose number was on a leaked list of phones reportedly being targeted by Israeli-made spyware, looks at his mobile phone on July 20, 2021, in Budapest (GERGELY BESENYEI/AFP)
April 17, 2023, 11:20 am
Israeli spy tech firm said shut after report found it targeted foreign activists
QuaDream’s trouble began last week when watchdog revealed its REIGN program is used to surveil journalists and dissidents around globe; only two remain employed to guard equipment
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: In this December 23, 2013 file photo, a woman using a phone walks past Apple's logo near its retail outlet in Beijing. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)
April 11, 2023, 10:06 pm
Report: Israeli firm’s spy tech targeting reporters, opposition figures around globe
Cybersecurity watchdog says QuaDream’s software gives users full surveillance capabilities over another person’s phone by exploiting a security flaw in Apple iPhones
By ToI Staff
People hold posters of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, near the Saudi Arabia consulate in Istanbul, October 2, 2020, marking the two-year anniversary of his death (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel, File)
September 23, 2022, 9:34 am
Khashoggi wife readying to sue Israel’s NSO for alleged phone hacking
Hanan Elatr also plans to file suits against Saudi Arabia and UAE, who she says targeted phone with Pegasus spyware, saying she wants everyone ‘in this horrible crime accountable’
By ToI Staff
An Illustration of a man holding his phone with an NSO Group logo with a computer screen in the background, in Jerusalem, on February 7, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 15, 2022, 12:18 pm
US defense contractor said in talks to take over controversial NSO surveillance tech
Sale to L3Harris would need US, Israeli approval; report says deal would drastically cut Pegasus spyware client list; expert fears US police will use tech, threatening freedoms
By ToI Staff
A flag with the text in Catalan "The people lead" is held up as people gather to celebrate the proclamation of a Catalan republic at the Sant Jaume square in Barcelona, on October 27, 2017. (AFP/Pau Barrena)
April 19, 2022, 7:42 pm
Spain denies using Israeli spyware to target Catalan separatists
Toronto-based Citizen Lab says at least 65 activists and officials were targeted with NSO’s Pegasus software in the wake of the region’s independence bid
By AFP
Former deputy president of the Catalan regional government Oriol Junqueras, center, walks with the current Catalonian president Pere Aragones, 2nd left, in front of an 'estelada' or Catalan pro-independence flag after being released from the Lledoners prison in Sant Joan de Vilatorrada near Barcelona, Spain, June 23, 2021. (AP Photo/ Joan Mateu, File)
April 18, 2022, 7:37 pm
Israeli spyware used ‘extensively’ on separatists in Spain, group says
Citizen Lab says investigation found that at least 65 individuals were targeted with software sold by NSO Group and Candiru
By Aritz Parra
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson makes a speech on immigration, at Lydd Airport, in southeast England, on April 14, 2022. (Matt Dunham/Pool/AFP)
April 18, 2022, 6:27 pm
UAE used Israeli-made spyware to hack UK PM Johnson’s official residence — report
Researchers at Toronto-based Citizen Lab say Pegasus was also used to hack British Foreign Office at least five times in 2020-21
By ToI Staff
A logo adorns a wall on a branch of the Israeli NSO Group company, near the southern Israeli town of Sapir, on August 24, 2021. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)
January 13, 2022, 7:46 am
Dozens of El Salvador journalists, activists said hacked with Israeli-made spyware
Watchdog says NSO Group’s Pegasus software found on phones which were then surveilled using local infrastructure; government denies involvement despite circumstantial evidence
By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN and Frank Bajak
Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the head of Poland's ruling party Law and Justice, speaks at a news conference in Warsaw, Poland, on Tuesday Oct. 26, 2021 (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)
January 7, 2022, 12:53 pm
Polish leader admits country bought powerful Israeli-made spyware
But Jaroslaw Kaczynski denies Pegasus was used to target his political opponents; ‘It would be bad if the Polish services did not have this type of tool,’ he says
By Vanessa Gera
Polish Senator Krzysztof Brejza on the night of parliamentary elections, on October 13, 2019. (AP Photo)
January 7, 2022, 3:02 am
Amnesty verifies Polish senator was hacked with NSO spyware
Although investigators have not determined who ordered hacks, victims all blame Poland’s right-wing ruling party, Law and Justice
By Vanessa Gera
Screen capture from video of John Scott-Railton of the Citizen Lab watchdog group, November, 2020. (YouTube)
December 30, 2021, 8:00 am
Polish use of NSO spyware against gov’t opponents is ‘tip of the iceberg’ — expert
‘Pegasus is a tool of dictators,’ says researcher from watchdog about Israeli software; adds that more cases are expected; warns it shows ‘authoritarian slide’ in Poland
By AFP
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