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2021-11-08 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Palestinian activists hacked by Israeli firm NSO spyware

[Aljazeera] Spyware from the Israeli surveillance company NSO Group was detected on the mobile phones of six Palestinian human rights activists, in the first known instance of Palestinian activists being targeted by the military-grade Pegasus spyware.

The non-profit Frontline Defenders disclosed its findings on Monday in a joint technical report together with Amnesty International and the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, which independently confirmed the results.

It is not clear who placed the NSO spyware, which surreptitiously gives intruders access to everything a person stores and does on their mobile phone, including real-time communications.

Three of the hacked Palestinians work for civil society groups. The others do not, and wish to remain anonymous, Frontline Defenders says.

Among those hacked is Ubai Aboudi, a 37-year-old economist and US citizen who runs the Bisan Center for Research and Development in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank. The group is one of the six slapped with terrorist designations by Israel last month.

The Irish-based Frontline Defenders considers Israel the main suspect. The first two intrusions were identified shortly after Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz declared the six Palestinian civil society groups to be "terrorist" organisations.

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#1 Irish Embassy tweets, then deletes, anger at 2010 Mossad operation

Posted by Skidmark 2021-11-08 07:46|| 2021-11-08 07:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Pegasus spyware found on phones of six Palestinian activists - report

Posted by Skidmark 2021-11-08 07:47|| 2021-11-08 07:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Curious the Irish are sympathetic.

Posted by Skidmark 2021-11-08 07:48|| 2021-11-08 07:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Or maybe not.

Newtownabbey: Bus hijacked and set on fire by gang

Posted by Skidmark 2021-11-08 08:00|| 2021-11-08 08:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Not surprising. The IRA were close allies of the PLO. There's a species of Irish zealot-fool who thinks of himself as a member of a third world, oppressed colony

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-11-08 08:12|| 2021-11-08 08:12|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm an Anglophile Irishman, too,
And it seems we are more than a few,
Who'll lick Fenian shite
From the boots of a knight.
It's polite, and the right thing to do!

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