Get the latest tech news
Business leaders among Pegasus spyware victims, says security firm
The mobile security company said it detected Pegasus spyware attacks on seven iPhone owners, including government officials and a business leader.
While journalists, human rights defenders, lawmakers and political officials are frequent targets of state surveillance, reports of spyware compromising the phones of business leaders are rare, but not unheard of. The phone of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was hacked several years ago, which a United Nations report concluded was likely the result of Saudi officials purchasing access to Pegasus and using WhatsApp to deliver the spyware. Earlier this year, Google sounded the alarm after its security researchers found evidence that Russian government-backed hackers acquired exploits that were “identical or strikingly similar” to code developed by NSO Group, which said it had never sold its spyware to Russia.
Or read this on TechCrunch
