Court Documents: Spyware Group NSO's Pegasus Targeted Up To 'Tens of Thousands' 19
WhatsApp's newly unsealed court documents have exposed the extensive reach of NSO Group's Pegasus spyware operation, which targeted "between hundreds and tens of thousands" of devices, according to testimony from the company's head of research and development. The Israeli surveillance firm charged government customers up to $6.8 million for one-year licenses, generating at least $31 million in revenue in 2019 alone, TechCrunch first reported.
The documents detail previously unknown hacking tools named "Hummingbird," "Eden," and "Heaven," developed specifically to compromise WhatsApp users' devices. The revelations emerge from WhatsApp's ongoing 2019 lawsuit against NSO Group for alleged violations of U.S. anti-hacking laws.
Further reading: NSO, Not Government Clients, Operates Its Spyware.
The documents detail previously unknown hacking tools named "Hummingbird," "Eden," and "Heaven," developed specifically to compromise WhatsApp users' devices. The revelations emerge from WhatsApp's ongoing 2019 lawsuit against NSO Group for alleged violations of U.S. anti-hacking laws.
Further reading: NSO, Not Government Clients, Operates Its Spyware.
Literally the brightest in the field (Score:2, Funny)
"Our software is quite popular, in fact our usage is exploding!"
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if one bowl of ice cream is good... (Score:2)
This is an obvious outcome..
You know what's better than 10,000 bowls of ice cream?
One BILLION bowls of ice cream. Spin up your own VPN or you're food.
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I get all my fiber from a single bowl of Colon Blow!
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I get all my fiber from a single bowl of Colon Blow!
In these parts, we call that Wendy's Chili.
Re: if one bowl of ice cream is good... (Score:2)
That's because it's made with the meat that sat in the drawer too long to be deployed as a burger.
Why isn't the headline 'Israeli Spyware'...? (Score:2, Insightful)
... because if it was from a company in Russia or China it definitely would be labeled in such a way.
oh that's right - Propaganda.
Re:Why isn't the headline 'Israeli Spyware'...? (Score:4, Informative)
Nope. Anti-semitism. Anytime anything bad is mentioned about Israel, it's anti-semitism. Don't like Jewish terrorists destroying Palestinians farms? You're an anti-semite. Don't like Israel deliberately targeting civilians, doctors, and journalists? Anti-semite. Don't like Israel's genocidal policies? Anti-semite.
There is absolutely no criticism of Israel, in any capacity, which is not anti-semitic. To avoid being labeled as such, the editors leave out that little part.
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AIPAC has deep pockets and they ain't afraid to use them.
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How about an attempt of keeping the discussion interesting and to the point while preventing turning comments into yet another shit creek --- by avoiding the attention of types that are easily triggered by the word `Israel', those that just cannot stand neutral or positive opinions about the country? You know, those that keep spreading unfounded, biased lies about it like `"targeting" doctors and journalists', `genocide' and other rubbish?
Slashdot readers that care about this item usually know quite we
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They're not lies if they're true. Israel is delibrately targeting civilians, doctors, and journalists and is committing genocide.
Article 1 [reuters.com] for journalists being killed, article 2 [cbsnews.com] for journalists being killed, and article 3 [npr.org] for journalists being killed. This article [aljazeera.com] discusses the 113 journalists (as of September) which Israel has deliberately targeted despit
Re: Why isn't the headline 'Israeli Spyware'...? (Score:2)
It goes like this:
Slashdot: There's a hearing of Meta in the Senate, they cause harm to youth.
You: Meta is a U.S. company!
I: Everyone interested knows that Meta is a U.S. company and this information is irrelevant.
You: But U.S. shot up weddings in Afghanistan and targeted numerous villages in Vietnam! There is evidence!
There is no relation between U.S. wars (just or not)â"or its foreign policy in generalâ"and the questionable conduct of Meta unless one is absolutely sure that anything having
Why the ridiculous lower bound? (Score:2)
What's missing (Score:2)
If WhatsApp is crying about its software being hacked, fix it.
Suing the company exposing your software as crap isn't a path to success.
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>> crying about its software being hacked, fix it.
Fix which part of the hacks they weren't aware of? They do appear to have fixed quite a few they did find out about. But whatever, the hacking may very well be against US law.
“The evidence unveiled shows exactly how NSO’s operations violated U.S. law and launched their cyber-attacks against journalists, human rights activists and civil society,”
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Right. Let's just wait for the FBI to do the right thing. Certainly any day now...