Feb 05, 2024NewsroomSpyware / Surveillance The iPhones belonging to nearly three dozen journalists, activists, human rights lawyers, and civil society members in Jordan have been targeted with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, according to joint findings from Access Now and the Citizen Lab. Nine of the 35 individuals have been publicly confirmed as targeted, out of […]
Cyberattackers have installed the Pegasus spyware on the phones of multiple journalists in the African country of Togo. According to Reporters Without Borders, the spyware was used by Togo’s government until 2021, and there is evidence of at least 23 spyware intrusions — between Feb. 1 and July 10 in that year — on one […]
The European Parliament agreed on Tuesday to strengthen protections for journalists from government surveillance as part of the proposed European Media Freedoms Act. As originally proposed last September, the law would have prohibited surveilling journalists and their families — and banned the use of spyware to target their devices — except in the cases of […]
More Russian journalists have come forward this week expressing concern that they too may have been targeted with spyware, following the news that the prominent media figure Galina Timchenko was hacked with Pegasus. On Thursday, three Russian-speaking journalists reported that they have also recently received notifications from Apple warning them that their phones are potential […]