The spyware secretly hacking smartphones

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🗓️ 19 July 2021

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Summary

The military-grade spyware that’s being used to spy on journalists, human rights activists and business executives. Plus, a long overdue trip to space.

Military-grade spyware leased by the Israeli firm NSO Group to governments for tracking terrorists and criminals was used to hack smartphones belonging to journalists, human rights activists, business executives and the two women closest to murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to an investigation by The Washington Post and 16 media partners led by the Paris-based journalism nonprofit Forbidden Stories.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:07.0	Hello, Hayon.
0:08.0	Here's the Elizabeth from the Washington Post.
0:10.0	Hi, this is Beth Ryan,
0:12.0	hundredth of the Washington Post.
0:13.0	Glory, Arightani, over at the post.
0:14.0	I'm...
0:15.0	This is Post Reports.
0:16.0	I'm Martine Powers.
0:18.0	It's Monday, July 19th.
0:22.0	Today, the Military Great Spyware,
0:27.0	secretly targeting journalists, human rights workers,
0:30.0	and heads of state,
0:32.0	plus a trip to space that's long overdue.
0:37.0	The Post has been working with other news organizations
0:40.0	around the world to investigate the use of spyware
0:44.0	that's made by a company called NSO Group,
0:46.0	it's based in Israel,
0:48.0	and they've been controversial for quite some time,
0:51.0	and what we were able to review is part of this project
0:55.0	was a list that contains some phone numbers
0:58.0	that NSO clients had used to select individuals for surveillance.
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