US State Department officials' iPhones hacked by Pegasus: Report
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According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, Apple has notified 11 US State Department employees in Uganda that their iPhones were hacked. The investigators "have linked the attack to a tool developed by NSO Group, an Israeli technology company that was blacklisted by the Biden administration, according to a person familiar with the matter," the report said late on Friday.
Israeli NSO spyware firm says to work to reverse US ban
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Earlier on Wednesday, the US Department of Commerce announced in a statement that it added NSO Group, along with three other foreign companies, to the "entity list", a blacklist prohibiting firms from receiving American technologies, reports Xinhua news agency. The move was made after the department ruled that NSO Group engaged "in activities that are contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the US".
Israel inspects NSO Group offices after Pegasus revelations
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Officials from the Defence Ministry visited the company's offices near Tel Aviv on Wednesday, at the same time when Defence Minister Benny Gantz arrived in Paris for a pre-arranged visit, in which he discussed the Pegasus revelations with his French counterpart. French President Emmanuel Macron is one of the highest profile figures whose phone numbers appeared on a leaked database.
All allegations, all finger-pointing should be at the customer: Pegasus spyware seller
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A NSO spokesperson told BBC: "If I am the manufacturer of a car and now you take the car and you are driving drunken and you hit somebody, you do not go to the car manufacturer, you go to the driver."We are sending the system to governments, we get all the correct accreditation and do it all legally. "You know, if a customer decides to misuse the system, he will not be a customer anymore.
France orders series of investigations into Pegasus data
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French Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Wednesday the Elysee (official residence of the French President) had "ordered a series of investigations", after vowing to "shed all light on the revelations", the report said. But Castex said it is too early to comment or announce any new security measures or other action without knowing "exactly what happened". He said: "We are going to look at this very closely."
Pegasus Tapes: Explosive details emerge on massive snooping by governments
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The consortium's analysis of the leaked data identified at least 10 governments believed to be NSO customers who were entering numbers into a system: Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Morocco, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Hungary, India, and the United Arab Emirates. Rwanda, Morocco, India, and Hungary denied having used Pegasus to hack the phones of the individuals named in the list.
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