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In a first, spyware is found on phone of prominent Russian journalist
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/13/pegasus-infection-meduza-founder/?
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Access Now, a nonprofit that defends digital rights, and the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab say they confirmed the Pegasus infection after Timchenko received an alert this summer from Apple that spyware may have been planted on her phone.
Also worrisome is the possibility that the perpetrators might have activated the microphone on Timchenko’s device to listen in on what the Russian journalists were discussing at their February meeting, said Natalia Krapiva, tech legal counsel at Access Now.
Access Now named Latvia another suspect as the headquarters of Meduza, citing a recent hostile turn toward another exiled Russian outlet, TV Rain, whose Latvian government license was canceled after it was labeled a national security threat.
German officials have insisted that investigators in its police and intelligence agencies only use a version of the software that is adapted to comply with the limits of the country’s legal system, without giving details of how that is ensured.
Access Now flagged Germany as a possible suspect in the infection of Timchenko’s phone, but a German member of the European parliament who sat on a committee that conducted oversight of spyware cast doubt on that idea given the limited form of Pegasus the government obtained, among other reasons.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe said last week that five nations, including Azerbaijan, must investigate spyware abuses and also called on Israel to explain how it ensures Pegasus won’t violate human rights.
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