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In November of 2019, a New York City technology reporter photographed an interception device showcased at Milipol , the trade show on homeland security in Paris. The exhibitor of NSO group has placed the hardware at the back of the van , suggesting convenience of portability and also told it will not work on specially US phone numbers, this is because of a self restriction imposed by the firm.Since Israeli cyber giant was founded in 2010, that is probably the first time an NSO-made portable Base Transceiver Station (BTS) was featured in a media report.
About the case :- July 18th, The Wire with 16 media organisations around the whole world, published the first of stories about individuals who might be possible targets of government snooping by using the Pegasus. Pegasus is a hardware rather than a spyware made by the Israeli cybersecurity firm of NSO Group Technologies, that the government says is only sold to the vetted governments.
Over the next few days, The Wire has published all together 161 names of individuals it could recognise from the list of approximately 50,000 telephone numbers around the globe that may have been affected with Pegasus. These included many journalists ,lawyers, academics, activists, bureaucrats, political leaders and even Supreme Court officials, amongst many more. Amnesty International forensically tested approximately 10 phones from India showed signs of whether an attempted hack or that is a successful compromise. Pegasus Main targets are included of opposition leader Rahul Gandhi, political strategist Prashant Kishore, former Election Commissioner of India Ashok Lavasa, The Wire founders Siddharth Varadarajan and MK Venu and also the former Supreme Court staffer who has accused former Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi of sexual harassments.
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