HARWELL: We did some reporting that found, you know, a list of tens of thousands of numbers that may have been, you know, potentially targeted by Pegasus spyware. HARWELL: The people we've seen that have been targeted by this spyware have been human rights activists, lawyers, dissidents, journalists.ĬHANG: While not everyone with an iPhone or Apple device has been hacked, Harwell says this spyware is still targeting people. But as Harwell and a consortium of journalists have reported, researchers at the University of Toronto found out about these zero-click hacks because they targeted people who shouldn't have been under this kind of surveillance.
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KELLY: NSO Group was able to market its Pegasus software to governments and law enforcement groups to help combat terrorism and crime. HARWELL: If you're a $2 trillion company and you are advertising yourself as the choice for privacy for people around the world, you've got to wonder, should they be spending more toward keeping people's phones safe and secure? Like, Apple has been marketing that they are the privacy company for years.ĬHANG: Drew Harwell covers tech for The Washington Post, and he says Apple's update advisory was shocking given how much money the company invests in security. And needless to say, Apple consumers are worried.ĭREW HARWELL: It's a big blow. It's made by an Israeli-based company called NSO Group. This zero-click technology is employed by spyware called Pegasus. Apple issued the update to its iOS yesterday because devices were vulnerable to a military-grade spyware that could infiltrate devices even without users clicking on a link or downloading malicious software.
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