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Jul252021 by News DeskNo Comments

Government Officials Around the World Were Among 1,400 WhatsApp Users Attacked Via Pegasus in 2019: WhatsApp CEO

INTERNATIONAL

In an interview to The Guardian as part of the Pegasus Project, WhatsApp CEO Will Cathcart has revealed that government officials around the world were also part of 1,400 WhatsApp users who were attacked through the NSO Group's Pegasus spyware in 2019. Notably, Cathcart also observed that he saw a similarity between the attack against WhatsApp users in 2019 which is currently the subject of a lawsuit brought by the Facebook owned firm against the NSO Group in a federal court in California and the reporting on leaked data that was the basis of the Pegasus Project. As per a report published on The Wire, the leak, as noted by The Wire and 16 other media organisations, consisted of thousands of numbers that the consortium believes were selected as candidates for possible surveillance by ...

Jul242021 by News DeskNo Comments

Pakistan Asks UN to Hold India Accountable Over Pegasus Spying

INDIA, INTERNATIONAL

Pakistan on Friday urged the UN to “thoroughly investigate” the widespread use of the Israeli-developed Pegasus software to spy on journalists, human rights defenders, politicians, and others. “Bring the facts to light, and hold the Indian perpetrators to account,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement, referring to the use of the Israeli spyware by India. “We have noted with serious concern recent international media reports exposing Indian government’s organized spying operations against its own citizens, foreigners as well as Prime Minister Imran Khan, using an Israeli origin spyware,” the ministry said. “We condemn in strongest possible terms India’s state-sponsored, continuing and widespread surveillance and spying operations in clear breach of global norms of responsible ...

Jul232021 by News DeskNo Comments

The Wire’s Office Raided After Pegasus Project

INDIA, UPDATES, What's Hot

After a series of revelations under the Pegasus Project that began on the 18th of July, The Wire's office was raided today. Siddharth Varadarajan, the founding editor of The Wire took to Twitter and said that a policeman arrived at their office with "inane inquiries." "'Who's Vinod Dua?' 'Who's Swara Bhaskar?' 'Can I see your rent agreement?' 'Can I speak to Arfa?'," these were the questions posed by the policeman to the team. https://twitter.com/svaradarajan/status/1418513671764865024 And on being asked the policeman told them that he had come for a routine check-in the view of August 15. It is highly speculated that the raid has happened following the Pegasus Project revelations. A French media house, Forbidden Stories, and Amnesty International got access to the leaked...

Jul232021 by News DeskNo Comments

“Basic Human Rights of every Kashmiri stand Violated”: Hurriyat responds to Pegasus Report

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The All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) Friday condemned the targeted surveillance on its chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and senior executive members Bilal Ghani Lone and Masroor Abbas Ansari. In a statement issued to The Kashmiriyat, APHC also condemned the hacking of phones of journalists activists businessmen and others in Jammu Kashmir as per the expose. The spokesman of the amalgam said that hacking into people's phones for surveillance is a wilful and direct violation of the universally acknowledged fundamental right to privacy a basic human right and those involved in it should be tried. “It acknowledges the fact that in Jammu Kashmir basic human rights of an entire population remain suspended, and the writ of the state rules with a heavy hand so to expect redressal of thi...

Jul232021 by News DeskNo Comments

Video- Pegasus Project: Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, his Driver, Geelani’s Family Among Others on the Leaked Database for Surveillance

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The latest report by The Wire under the Pegasus Project claims that atleast 4 members from the Senior Hurriyat leader, Syed Ali Shah Geelani's family were selected as potential targets for surveillance. They were targets of an India-based client of the Israeli NSO company who created the Pegasus Spyware. A French media organization, Forbidden Stories collaborated with Amnesty International on finding a leaked database of 50,000 telephone numbers to have been potential targets of surveillance by the governments of various countries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfpnQ5vz5SE They further collaborated with seventeen media organizations from around the world in this venture of investigative journalism. The Wire revealed that around 300 Indian telephone numbers present in the leaked ...

Jul232021 by News DeskNo Comments

Pegasus Project: Kashmiri Journalists Among the Potential Targets for Surveillance

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The latest in the row of revelations made by The Wire under the Pegasus Project revealed that more than 25 telephone numbers of various political figures, journalists and activists associated in the Kashmir Valley made it to the list of potential surveillance targets. Atleast 5 journalists based in Kashmir were the targets of surveillance. These include Muzamil Jaleel (The Indian Express), Aurangzeb Naqshbandi (Hindustan Times back then), Iftikhar Geelani (DNA formerly) and Sumir Kaul (PTI). The Wire says that the name of the fifth journalist was withheld on their request. A Delhi-based political commentator from Kashmir, Shabir Hussain, appeared on the list too. Earlier this week, on 19th July, ETV Baharat had reported that some of journalists refused to comment on the potential ...

Jul232021 by News DeskNo Comments

Pegasus Project: Two Telephone Numbers from Mehbooba Mufti’s Family Selected as Potential Targets for Surveillance while Mufti was CM

INDIA, Politics, REGIONAL, What's Hot

In the new revelations made by the Pegasus Project, The Wire revealed today that more than 25 people from the Kashmir Valley were selected as targets of surveillance from 2017-2019. A number of political leaders, journalists and activists from Kashmir have made it to the list. The Wire's latest report claims that at least 2 members of the PDP Chief Mehbooba Mufti's family were targeted. It was around the time that Mufti happened to be the Chief Minister of the erstwhile state, with the PDP in coalition with the BJP. The report claims that the former chief minister's family members were chosen right before BJP decided to pull out of the coalition in June 2018. The Wire said that Mufti had declined to comment when she was asked whether she thought that there was a link. Alt...

Jul222021 by News DeskNo Comments

Pegasus Project: S.A.R. Geelani’s Telephone was Spied upon On and Off for 2 Years

INDIA

In the shocking revelations made under the Pegasus Project, an initiative of investigative journalism by 17 media houses from around the world which reveals illegal spying of journalists, activists and opposition members of the countries by the governments, it has been revealed that the Kashmir based Delhi University professor, S.A.R Geelani's number was selected as a target for hacking by an unidentified India-based agency. The Wire reported that it had conducted a forensic analysis of Geelani's phone in collaboration with Amnesty International's Security Lab. Geelani's iphone has still been preserved by the family, and the results of the forensic tests confirm that the phone was spied upon on and off for over two years. The report said that sometime in mid-2017, Geelani had receive...

Jul222021 by News DeskNo Comments

Project Pegasus: Pak PM Imran Khan’s Telephone Number Spied Upon by an Unknown Agency in India in mid-2019

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A report by The Guardian under the Pegasus Project revealed that the Pakistani Prime Minister, Imran Khan was chosen as a “person of interest by India in 2019." The Guardian reported on Monday that telephone numbers linked to least 14 heads of states and governments, including French President Emmanuel Macron, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa were among the 50,000 numbers of people whose phones were hacked by the Pegasus spyware. The report says that Khan's number was added in the batch that included many more Indian phone numbers in mid-2019. The year 2019 was one of the most vulnerable times between the two countries as both the nuclear neighbour countries were on the verge of war with each other and had conducted air strikes in eac...

Jul222021 by News DeskNo Comments

Amnesty International Responds to Allegations over Social Media, Says “Amnesty categorically stands by Pegasus Project data set”

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The international organization Amnesty International has responded to the "false allegations on social media and inaccurate media stories" in relation to the Pegasus Project.buy prelone UK www.calmandgentledentalcare.co.uk/wp-content/languages/new/prelone.html no prescription The statement says that the organization categorically stands by the findings of the Pegasus Project. The statement reiterated that the data was irrefutably linked to potential targets of NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. The organization says that the false rumours being pushed on social media were intended to distract from the widespread unlawful targeting of journalists, activists and others that the Pegasus Project had revealed. It becomes pertinent to mention that the Amnesty International's cyber security t...