Apple Alerts Biden Admin Officials Their Phones Hacked By Israeli Spyware

Discussion in 'Politics' started by ipatent, Dec 3, 2021.

  1. ipatent

    ipatent

    Apple Alerts Biden Admin Officials Their Phones Hacked By Israeli Spyware

    There's been a huge revelation in the ongoing saga of the Israel-based NSO Group Pegasus spyware scandal. To recap, NSO Group was recently blacklisted by the United States after months ago a major journalistic investigation exposed that the technology was repeatedly used by abusive governments to infiltrate the devices of journalists, activists, and even foreign government officials - on up to the communication devices of President Emmanuel Macron.

    Now, a breaking Reuters story has confirmed that several Biden administration officials were also hacked by Pegasus, in the first such revelation involving the targeting of US government officials.

    "Apple Inc iPhones of at least nine U.S. State Department employees were hacked by an unknown assailant using sophisticated spyware developed by the Israel-based NSO Group, according to four people familiar with the matter," Reuters writes.
     
  2. ipatent

    ipatent

    NSO's Pegasus used to hack US State Dept. phones - report

    The hacks, which took place in the last several months, hit U.S. officials either based in Uganda or focused on matters concerning the East African country, two of the sources said.

    The intrusions, first reported here, represent the widest known hacks of U.S. officials through NSO technology. Previously, a list of numbers with potential targets including some American officials surfaced in reporting on NSO, but it was not clear whether intrusions were always tried or succeeded.
     
  3. As I used to repeatedly say wayyy back, "if you want a copy of all of Hillary's emails, just ask the Israelis."

    Guaranteed they have them. Amongst others. They will deny it, but they have them.
     
  4. themickey

    themickey

  5. Cuddles

    Cuddles

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  6. Overnight

    Overnight

    Then cut-off Isreal funding. Plain and simple.