Pegasus was first discovered in 2016. Almost 10 years ago.
Surely by now the surveillance tech has outgrown our knowledge about it?
🎥FRESH TALK DROP: Your phone, the spy.
In the fight against spyware like Pegasus, your phone is the frontline.
Last week at the Oslo Freedom Forum https://blossom.primal.net/4dc930b72c717f0123891cb0195a1a86086baab8ebfdccbf8b78b1b5316a9551.mp4
Topics:
❌The dictators repression toolkit
❌How mercenary spyware is used to spread fear around the globe
❌Zero click vs 1 click attacks
❌What works in the fight to pump the brakes on spyware proliferation
BONUS:
✅What you can do right now to make yourself harder to hack
Full talk:
Discussion
Yep, me & my colleague cowrote that paper 😉
You're right, the tech has gotten smarter. The 2016 cases for example were 1-click attacks. More recently we've seen most of the players doing 0-click attacks. Which makes sense if you've got the resources for it.
And Paragon, for example, is a more sophisticated animal. Despite this, we continue actively tracking mercenary spyware including Pegasus. And Paragon's Graphite and some others..