India uses Israeli spyware to lock the phone number of Prime Minister Imran Khan

• Rahul Gandhi, a Pakistani official and judge of the Supreme Court of India, was listed as the target.
• “Targeted surveillance […] It’s illegal and pathetic,” Gandhi said.
• Activists, journalists, and politicians around the world are being monitored for using mobile phone malware developed by NSO.

India used malware from an Israeli company to target a mobile phone used by Prime Minister Imran Khan earlier. Haaretz The report on Monday raised concerns about widespread privacy and abuse of rights.

According to the publication, several Pakistani officials, Kashmir freedom fighters, Indian parliament leader Rahul Gandhi, and even a judge of the Supreme Court of India were all targeted.

Informed sources Geographic News India tried to use spyware to eavesdrop on the calls and information of federal cabinet members, prompting Pakistan to develop new software for its federal ministers.

After the development of the situation, a high-level meeting of civil and military leaders was convened, and the meeting will determine the future plan of action against Indian spy attempts.

At the same time, Gandhi said in response to the developments: “The targeted surveillance you describe, whether it is for me, other opposition leaders, or in fact any law-abiding citizen of India, is illegal and pathetic. .”

“If your information is correct, the scale and nature of the surveillance you describe is not just an attack on personal privacy. This is an attack on the foundations of democracy in our country. This matter must be thoroughly investigated, the responsible person must be identified, and no severe punishments loan.”

Congress leaders change their phones every few months to avoid being hacked.

According to the publication, New Delhi did not confirm or deny whether it is a customer of the Israeli company NSO, but its laws do not restrict the government from disclosing the use of the aforementioned technology.

India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology responded from Washington post, Said that the statement directed at a specific group of people “has no specific basis or truth related to it.”

It added: “Any interception, monitoring or decryption of any information through any computer resource is carried out in accordance with due legal procedures.”

It is necessary to mention here that according to ReutersIndia is Israel’s largest weapon consumer, purchasing weapons worth approximately US$1 billion each year.

Israeli private malware was used to monitor journalists and activists

There were reports on Sunday that activists, journalists and politicians around the world were using mobile phone malware developed by an Israeli private company for espionage activities, which raised concerns about widespread privacy and abuse of rights.

The use of the software called Pegasus developed by the Israeli National Bureau of Statistics is controlled by The Washington post, The Guardian, Le Monde, and other news media that cooperate in investigating data breaches.

According to the report, the leaked content included as many as 50,000 phone numbers, which are believed to have been identified by NSO customers as persons of interest since 2016.

Not all of these figures were subsequently hacked. News media with access to the leak said that more detailed information about the hacked will be released in the next few days.

The number of people on the list includes the number of journalists from media organizations around the world, including French Press Agency, This Wall Street Journal, CNN, New York Times, Al Jazeera, France 24, Radio free europe, Media Department, country, This Associated Press, world, Bloomberg, This economist, Reuters with Voice of America, This guardian Say.

The Citizens Laboratory of the University of Toronto Research Center and Amnesty International have previously reported using the software to hack the phones of Al Jazeera reporters and a Moroccan reporter.

Among the numbers found on the list are two women who belonged to Saudi-born journalist Jamal Khashoggi who were murdered by a Saudi strike team in 2018.

The list also includes a Mexican freelance journalist who was later murdered in a car wash. His phone has not been found, and it is unclear whether it has been hacked.

According to the Washington Post, the numbers on the list also belong to the heads of state and prime ministers, members of the Arab royal family, diplomats and politicians, as well as activists and business executives.

The list does not identify which customers have entered numbers on it. But the report said that many people gathered in 10 countries-Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Hungary, India, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Morocco, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

The Guardian wrote that the investigation showed that Pegasus was “widely and continuously abused,” and NSO stated that it was intended to be used against criminals and terrorists.

Amnesty International and Forbidden Stories, a non-profit media organization based in Paris, initially had access to the leak, and then they shared the leak with the media organization.

NSO, a leader in the growing and largely unregulated private spyware industry, has previously pledged to regulate the misuse of its software.

According to the Washington Post, it said the allegations were exaggerated and baseless, and would not confirm the identities of its customers.

The Citizen Lab reported in December that the mobile communications of dozens of reporters on the Al Jazeera TV network in Qatar were intercepted by sophisticated electronic surveillance.

Amnesty International reported in June last year that Moroccan authorities used NSO’s Pegasus software to insert spyware into Omar Radi’s phone, a journalist convicted of social media posts.