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NSO claims list of Indian phone numbers targeted for surveillance is “not ours, never was”

INDIA

On Tuesday, in a conversation with NDTV, the Israel based NSO Group that created Pegasus spyware said that the list of Indian phone numbers reportedly targeted for surveillance by the government with its software is "not ours, never was." The latest report by NDTV says that a spokesperson of NSO said that the company is "not related to the list published by Forbidden Stories (the Paris-based non-profit group that obtained a database of 50,000 phone numbers)." "It is not an NSO list, and it never was - it is fabricated information. It is not a list of targets or potential targets of NSO's customers," the spokesperson said, and also added that "repeated reliance on this list and association of people on this list as potential surveillance targets is false and misleading." "The compa...

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If you don’t do anything to stop the sale of this technology, it’s not just going to be 50,000 targets. It’s going to be 50 million targets”: Edward Snowden on revelations of Pegasus Project

INTERNATIONAL

In the context of the Pegasus Project (the international investigative journalism project which aims to reveal the illegal spying abuses by the governments of various countries on its journalists, activists and opposition parties using the Israel based NSO company's Pegasus spyware), the renowned journalist and whistleblower, Edward Snowden, in an interview with the Guardian said that the consortium’s findings illustrated how commercial malware had made it possible for repressive regimes to place vastly more people under the most invasive types of surveillance. Snowden said that for traditional police operations to plant bugs or wiretap a suspect’s phone, law enforcement would need to “break into somebody’s house, or go to their car, or go to their office, and we’d like to think they’ll...

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SC Staffer Who Had Accused CJI Gogoi of Sexual Harassment also on the list of Potential Snooping Targets

INDIA

According to the latest coverage done by The Wire on the Pegasus Project, 11 numbers used by a former supreme court aide and her family and were brought to the attention of an unidentified official agency prior to possible hacking. In April 2019, three phone numbers of Supreme Court official who indicted former Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi on sexual harassment charges were selected as potential surveillance targets for an unidentified Indian agent who may be a client of Israel's NSO Group. At the time, she was one of four senior judges who protested against CJ's choice of baker Deepak Mishra, says The Wire report. The employee whose name has been kept secret, was fired in December 2018, weeks after she said it had rejected the judge's motion. She said that she had filed an affidavit...

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BJP Must come clean on who Authorized ‘illegal surveillance’ of Indians through Pegasus Spyware: CPI(M)

REGIONAL

The Communist Party of India (M) on Monday said that the BJP government should answer as to who authorized the “illegal surveillance” of Indian through Pegasus spyware. In a statement issued to The Kashmiriyat, CPI (M) said that In India, the numbers of phones belonging to hundreds of journalists, activists, opposition politicians, government officials and business executives were on the snooping list. “Reports in Indian media have named at least 40 journalists who are under surveillance of this spy software, Pegasus.” The statement reads that two years ago, the CPI(M) had raised in Parliament that this dangerous spyware was being used in India as revealed by WhatsApp. “The Modi government’s response had not categorically denied that it engaged the services of NSO but claimed that...

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Rahul Gandhi’s Name Also Among Pegasus Targets

INDIA

Indian politician and a member of the Indian Parliament, Rahul Gandhi’s name is among the list of people whose has been target of Israeli spyware 'Pegasus,' The Wire reports. The list also includes name of poll strategist Prashant Kishor and the Centre's new IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw. As per The Wire report, at least two mobile phone accounts used by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi were among 300 verified Indian numbers listed as potential targets by an official Indian client of the Israeli surveillance technology vendor, NSO Group. The report also claims that five social friends and acquaintances of Rahul Gandhi were also in the list of potential targets and also none of them “plays any role in politics or public affairs." On Sunday Media outlets including The Washington Post,...

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‘I will not stop reporting the truth’, Rupesh Kumar Singh undeterred after name appears on Pegasus list

FEATURED, INDIA

Vikram Raj In recent developments, a worldwide list of many individuals whose mobile phones may have been tainted with the Pegasus programming software has emerged. It is being said that there are names of about 300 Indians in this list, out of which the names of 40 Journalists and activists have been revealed yet. Pegasus is the name of the most sophisticated piece of spyware at any point, created and owned by a private Israeli corporate called NSO group. Whenever it has wormed its direction onto your telephone, without you seeing it, it can transform it into a 24-hour reconnaissance gadget. It can duplicate messages you send or get, collect your photographs and record your calls. It may furtively film you through your phone's camera, or enact the amplifier to record your discussion...

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Forensic Tests Confirm Presence of Pegasus Spyware on Phones of Five Kashmiris

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Several people in India including Kashmiri Journalist Muzammil Jaleel, who is the deputy editor of Indian express have figured in a leaked list of potential targets for surveillance using hacking software 'Pegasus', sold by the Israeli surveillance company NSO. The recent leak reveals that around 300 verified Indian mobile telephone numbers which include the number of Opposition party leaders, ministers, activists were hacked into, the wire reported. The Government has said that no concrete basis or truth is associated with it whatsoever. Other than Muzammil Jaleel, several other Kashmiri names including Iftikhar Gilani, Aurangzeb Naqshbandi, Ruwa Shah, Hassan Babar Nehru and Shabir Hussein Buchh have appeared in the latest leak. What is Pegasus? Pegasus is spyware was devel...