Pegasus spyware on the phone of the Prime Minister of Spain

The mobile phones of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Defense Minister Margarita Robles have been found to be infected with Pegasus spyware, one known monitoring system manufactured by Israel's NSO Group, government officials said at a press conference on Monday.

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Félix Bolaños, the presidency minister, confirmed that the spyware had penetrated the prime minister's telephone in May 2021, while the defense minister's telephone had been hacked in June 2021. The data contained in the devices had flown.

One millionof NSO Group said the company "does not know the details of this particular case" but that using cyber tools to monitor politicians is a "serious misuse" of technology.

The Pegasus dynamically monitors targets' phones by accessing calls, messages, media, emails, microphones and cameras. The NSO Group (NSO Group), which has been sued by large technology companies and virtually blacklisted by the Biden government, it advertises its software as a means of monitoring criminal activity and terrorism by governments. But the same software has been criticized for its links to human rights abuses.

NSO Group spyware has been reported by various governments and human rights organizations, mainly targeting dissidents, journalists, activists, and government officials. The US Department of Commerce added NSO Group in the list of companies for malicious cyber activities in November 2021.

In March, the created a new commission to investigate the use of the spy Pegasus in various breaches that have taken place in several countries, such as Poland and Hungary, while at the same time preparing the revision of the surveillance law.

The Citizen Lab published a survey last month saw 65 cases of spyware being used to target European Parliament officials and Catalan presidents, legislators, lawyers and members of civil society organizations. Catalonia is an autonomous community of Spain.

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