{"id":119661,"date":"2021-07-19T18:59:29","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T13:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=119661"},"modified":"2021-07-19T19:01:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T13:31:16","slug":"pegasus-spyware-used-to-snoop-on-indian-journalists-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pegasus-spyware-used-to-snoop-on-indian-journalists-activists\/","title":{"rendered":"Pegasus spyware used to \u2018snoop\u2019 on Indian journalists, activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/pegasus-spyware-used-to-snoop-on-indian-journalists-activists\/article35399573.ece\">The Hindu<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>According to a report, Pegasus spyware may have been used to conduct surveillance on about 300 Indians including two Cabinet ministers three opposition leaders, a Constitutional authority, government officials, scientists and about 40 journalists.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>About Pegasus<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a spyware created by <strong>NSO Group<\/strong>, an Israeli cybersecurity firm founded in 2010.<\/li>\n<li>Pegasus spyware can<strong> hack<\/strong> any iOS or Android device and steal a variety of data from the infected device.<\/li>\n<li>It works by sending an <strong>exploit link<\/strong> and if the target user clicks on the link, the malware or the code that allows the surveillance is installed on the user\u2019s phone.<\/li>\n<li>Once Pegasus is installed, the attacker has <strong>complete access<\/strong> to the target user\u2019s phone.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: #f7f2f2;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Also Read<\/strong>: <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-what-is-spyware-and-stalkerware\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What is spyware?<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5><strong>Worrying Aspect of Pegasus Spyware<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>One of the worrying aspects <\/strong>of the Pegasus spyware is how it has evolved from its earlier spear-phishing methods using text links or messages to \u2018zero-click attacks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>What is a Zero Click Attack?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A zero-click attack <\/strong>helps spyware like Pegasus gain control over a device without human interaction or human error.<\/li>\n<li><strong>So all awareness <\/strong>about how to avoid a phishing attack or which links not to click is pointless if the target is the system itself.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Most of these attacks <\/strong>exploit software that receives data even before it can determine whether what is coming in is trustworthy or not, like an email client.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The Hindu What is the News? According to a report, Pegasus spyware may have been used to conduct surveillance on about 300 Indians including two Cabinet ministers three opposition leaders, a Constitutional authority, government officials, scientists and about 40 journalists. About Pegasus It is a spyware created by NSO Group, an Israeli cybersecurity firm&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pegasus-spyware-used-to-snoop-on-indian-journalists-activists\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pegasus spyware used to \u2018snoop\u2019 on Indian journalists, activists<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[8485,2718,8484,2719],"class_list":["post-119661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-activists","tag-pegasus","tag-pegasus-spyware-used-to-snoop-on-indian-journalists","tag-spyware","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1703856716},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}