pegasus spyware

Government-sponsored cyber surveillance is in the news again following an expose in the uk’s guardian newspaper talking about a piece of malware called pegasus which is allowing government around the world to spy on people turning their smartphones into effectively fully fledged civilian devices that can record audio record video look at the photos they’ve got look at the messages they’ve got and so on then i want to look at what is pegasus how does it work how does it infect phones and what can you do maybe to protect yourself well if you want to find out more please let me explain now pegasus is probably the most sophisticated piece of malware that we know about now it’s made by a company called the nso group and they only sell it to governments the idea is meant to be used in a fight against terrorism now the expose in the guardian has found some leaked information that shows that some of these governments that are using pegasus are not just targeting terrorists but also people of interest that may align or not align with their political plans and of course this is causing a big stir around the world i don’t want to get into the politics of it what i want to look at though is how does pegasus work and what does it do now the earliest versions of pegasus have been seen since 2016 so we knew about its existence however it’s becoming more and more powerful and more and more capable and at its fully fledged capabilities it’s able to basically turn any smartphone android or ios into a full surveillance device that means it can look at the messages it can record phone calls it can record audio through the microphone it can make video it can take photos you can look at the photos that are already on the device and so on it can even access location data now if you combine all those things together basically the person carrying the phone is basically taking whichever government it is that’s spying on them around with them everywhere they go and showing them everything that they are doing now this kind of technology does not come cheap if you want to license pegasus

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