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20 stories about Pegasus

NSO's attempt to halt Apple pegasus lawsuit fails in US court

25.01.24|Omer Kabir

Apple's legal battle against NSO progresses as court denies dismissal motion

Association for Civil Rights in Israel petitions Supreme Court to prohibit use of Pegasus spyware

06.09.23|Tomer Ganon

Following a Calcalist investigation into the police's use of spyware without supervision, a petition has been made asking for a continued injunction against its use

מימין מפכ"ל המשטרה ו יועצת המשפטית לממשלה עמית מררי

Israel Police purchased new surveillance software without AG approval

29.05.23|Tomer Ganon

After shutting down NSO's Pegasus, the police recently purchased software from Israeli cyber company Rayzone that can track the location and movement of cellphone users without their knowledge

עו"ד עמית מררי על רקע תוכנת ריגול פגסוס NSO

Israel’s Public Defense Office demands that Ministry of Justice stop using spyware against citizens until legislation is passed

03.05.23|Tomer Ganon

The appeal follows last year’s Marari Report, which discovered the use of spyware by police, including NSO’s Pegasus

הגנה מפני מתקפת סייבר עשויה לחסוך לארגונים נזקים כלכליים עצומים

Is Israeli spyware a dying sector?

23.04.23|Omer Kabir

The closure of QuaDream is further evidence of the shrinking of the world-leading Israeli cyber espionage industry. Most of the Israeli companies that were active in the field have closed or left the sector in the last year, also due to the restriction of export permits by the Ministry of Defense

NSO's Pegasus spyware found new ways to hack iPhones

18.04.23|Omer Kabir

Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto found that phones of Mexican human rights activists were infected with Pegasus by exploiting vulnerabilities in Apple’s operating system

After cutbacks and CEO departure, what’s next for the controversial NSO?

22.08.22|CTech

The surveillance firm, which makes Pegasus software, has been contending with legal action after allegations that its tools were misused by governments and other agencies to hack mobile phones

"The Marari report shows a severe violation of the privacy and rights of suspects"

04.08.22|Omer Kabir

Attorney Eitay Mack, who previously petitioned against NSO, criticized the conclusions of the Marari Committee's report and claimed that the committee should have recommended banning the use of spyware: "In a democratic country, law enforcement authorities must not have powerful systems such as Pegasus."

The NSO scandal: We are asked to believe police did everything "in good faith"

02.08.22|Moshe Gorali

Although "the police did not fully understand the meaning of the system", we are required to believe that an iron wall was erected between its operators and the investigators, and to believe that excess information, that is forbidden to be seized, did not pass and was not used by the investigating unit - and that everything was done in good faith

חברת הפרלמנט האירופי מטעם הולנד סופי אינטוולד

"Governments make citizens believe they are safer when they are being tracked. This is bullshit"

26.04.22|Viki Auslender

Sophie in 't Veld, a member of the European Parliament, will chair the commission of inquiry into the use of spyware such as NSO's Pegasus in EU countries. The inquiry will examine, among other things, whether existing laws allow for effective surveillance, and whether espionage has been used for political purposes

No one was immune: Israel Police Pegasus surveillance list revealed

07.02.22|Tomer Ganon

CEOs of government ministries, journalists, tycoons, corporate executives, mayors, social activists, and even the Prime Minister’s relatives, all were police targets, having their phones hacked by NSO’s spyware, prior to any investigation even opening and without any judicial authorization

מימין קובי שבתאי שלו חוליו רוני אלשיך משטרה NSO

Police confirm for the first time: There have been irregularities in the use of NSO software

02.02.22|Zvi Zerahia

Ministry of Justice orders the establishment of an investigation team that will submit conclusions within 5 months

ועידת התחזיות 2018 אשר לוי מנכ"ל אורבוטק

NSO Chairman quits company amidst ongoing turmoil

25.01.22|Meir Orbach

Asher Levy, who served as Chairman since April 2020, has left the embattled company behind the Pegasus spyware

רוני אלשיך ו קובי שבתאי מפכ"לי ה משטרה מיין רחב

Israeli police used NSO’s Pegasus to spy on local mayors, their relatives

23.01.22|Tomer Ganon

Police tapped phones of three heads of local authorities, whom law enforcement suspected of engaging in corrupt activity, but no evidence was found and no indictment filed; some were detained, with their homes searched

Step-by-step: How Israel Police used NSO’s Pegasus to spy on citizens

20.01.22|Tomer Ganon

Marking the target, hacking the phone, filing the information, real-time tracking and data analysis - Calcalist reveals what every step of the spyware operation looked like

Israel Police used Pegasus to track activist's secret use of gay dating app

20.01.22|Tomer Ganon

Police officer who was in charge of tapping activist's phone with NSO’s spyware, called individual a 'danger to democracy', claimed info on his use of Grindr while married 'serves as leverage' in investigation

Israel police uses NSO’s Pegasus to spy on citizens

18.01.22|Tomer Ganon

Mayors, leaders of political protests against former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and former governmental employees, were among those tracked by police without a search or bugging warrant authorizing the surveillance

Apple files lawsuit against NSO Group, saying U.S. citizens were targets

23.11.21|Reuters

The iPhone maker is the latest in a string of companies and governments to come after NSO, the maker of the Pegasus hacking tool that watchdog groups say targeted human rights workers and journalists

Report: Bahrain used NSO’s Pegasus spyware against regime opponents

24.08.21|Omer Kabir

The report from Citizen Lab maintains that the spyware was found on the smartphones of nine activists, five of which appeared on a list of 50,000 numbers of interest to NSO clients

Israel’s 10 Startup World Cup 2021 finalists are revealed

06.01.21|James Spiro

The finalists were selected from more than 100 applicants to compete in the final in November 2021