Spyware · July 18, 2021 · 6 min
Pegasus: Israeli spyware that turns a phone into a state microphone
MedellínSoftware · Medellín, Colombia
NSO Group sold full access — messages, camera, microphone — to governments. Journalists, opponents, chiefs of staff. No click required. Just a number.
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Vendor
NSO Group
Country
Israel
Vector
Zero-click
Project
Pegasus Project
Pegasus does not ask you to open a file. In the expensive versions, the number is enough. The phone is handed over: WhatsApp, photos, microphone, GPS. NSO Group, in Israel, sold it as a counterterror tool. The Pegasus Project — Forbidden Stories, Amnesty, Citizen Lab — showed another list: journalists, lawyers, activists, politicians.
Macron, journalists in Mexico, opponents in the Gulf. Each case is a country negotiating with a contractor. The software is not a state. The client is.
The forensic cut is a zero-click: infection chains, and a phone in a CEO's pocket that is already an intelligence asset whether he knows it or not.
The desk
The file is public. The briefing is requested.
AI and deep military intelligence. Medellín.