The Pegasus project | The Guardian

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  • The US said it had ‘reasonable cause to believe … [NSO] has been involved in activities contrary to the foreign policy and national security interests of the US.’.

    US

    Israeli spyware company NSO Group placed on blacklist

    Decision against company at heart of Pegasus project reflects deep concern about impact of spyware on US national security interests

  • A protest in July accusing Modi's government of using military-grade spyware to monitor political opponents, journalists and activists.

    India

    Supreme court orders inquiry into state’s use of Pegasus spyware

  • A logo on the wall of branch of the Israeli NSO Group company, near the southern Israeli town of Sapir.

    The Pegasus project

    Manager of fund that owns Israeli spyware firm not yet given access to sensitive info

  • Emirati activist Alaa Al-Siddiq, who died in a car crash near Oxford in June.

    United Arab Emirates

    New evidence suggests spyware used to surveil Emirati activist Alaa Al-Siddiq

  • French education minister, Jean-Michel Blanquer, left, and minister of territorial cohesion, Jacqueline Gourault

    France

    Spyware ‘found on phones of five French cabinet members’

  • The NSO Group company offices, near the southern Israeli town of Sapir.

    Hungary

    Phones of journalist who tracked Viktor Orban’s childhood friend infected with spyware

  • Didier Reynders

    EU

    Commissioner calls for urgent action against Pegasus spyware

  • Four of the nine activists were believed with a ‘high degree of confidence’ by Citizen Lab to have been targeted by the government of Bahrain.

    Bahrain

    Phones of nine Bahraini activists found to have been hacked with NSO spyware

  • David Haigh said he was targeted days after he suddenly lost contact with Princess Latifa.

    Princess Latifa

    Campaigner had ‘phone compromised by Pegasus spyware’

  • Pegasus can infect a phone through ‘zero-click’ attacks, which do not require any interaction from the phone’s owner to succeed.

    What is Pegasus spyware?

    And how does it hack phones?

  • Pegasus spyware can bypass your phone's security and gain complete access to your device. A Guardian investigation can now reveal widespread abuse of the Pegasus technology by government clients around the world who purchased the spyware from its manufacturer, the NSO Group

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    The spyware technology that threatens democracy

  • From Left: Saudi women's rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul. Joseph Breham, lawyer of ACTED. The Indian student activist Umar Khalid, who was targeted with Pegasus in late 2018, shortly before sedition charges were filed against him

    The Pegasus project

    Why investigations like this are at the heart of the Guardian’s mission

  • People enter the subway in front of an iPhone 12 advertisement in Shanghai

    Apple

    How does its technology hold up against NSO spyware?

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    Today in Focus

    Today in Focus

    The Pegasus project part 1: an invitation to Paris

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    Today in Focus

    The Pegasus project part 2: cat and mouse

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    The Pegasus project part 3: cartels, corruption and cyber-weapons

  • Edward Snowden and Narendra Modi.

    double quotation markThis is no ordinary spying. Our most intimate selves are now exposed

    Arundhati Roy

  • A phone taking a photo of a press conference

    double quotation markBurner phones, fake sources and ‘evil twin’ attacks: journalism in the surveillance age

    Bradley Hope

  • Pegasus: the spyware technology that threatens democracy

    Editorial

    The Guardian view on spyware sales: the proliferation risks are real

  • The scale of the scandal could only be uncovered by journalists around the world working together.

    double quotation markSpyware can make your phone your enemy. Journalism is your defence

    Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud

  • Man in T.short and shorts walking beside large NSO Group logo on orange wall

    Moroccan intelligence insider reveals widespread use of Pegasus hacking software

  • A woman walks past the entrance of an NSO Group building

    Israel tried to frustrate US lawsuit over Pegasus spyware, leak suggests

  • Polish prime minister Donald Tusk

    Poland launches inquiry into previous government’s spyware use

  • MEP Sophie in 't Veld in Brussels, on Tuesday, presenting draft findings of the spyware inquiry

    Dutch MEP says illegal spyware ‘a grave threat to democracy’

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