07 December 2023

Israel police uses NSO’s Pegasus to spy on citizens

Mayors, leaders of political protests against former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and former governemental employees, were among those tracked by police without search or bugging warrant authorizing the surveillance. Israel police uses NSO’s Pegasus spyware to remotely hack phones of Israeli citizens, control them and extract information from them, Calcalist has revealed. Among those who had their phones broken into by police are mayors, leaders of political protests against former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former governmental employees, and a person close to a senior politician.It turns out that 226 million of them were new to HIBP, which was an already comprehensive resource containing 613 million pwned passwords.