Government hackers use mobile spyware to target US diplomats' phones, Congressman says

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WASHINGTON - Government hackers are likely using commercial spyware to breach phones belonging to US officials stationed around the world, the chairman of the House intelligence committee said on Wed

nesday .using a kind of spyware known as Pegasus, developed by the Israeli vendor NSO Group, provide only a hint of the scale of the issue, said Representative Adam Schiff, the California Democrat and chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

In one case, a victim was simultaneously targeted by two programmes - Pegasus and another hacking tool called Predator, made by the Israeli company, Cytrox Ltd, said Mr John Scott-Railton, senior researcher at Citizen Lab, an Internet watchdog group at the University of Toronto. Mr Shane Huntley, director of a security team at Alphabet Inc's Google, told the committee his group had found 30 spyware tools in recent years.

The US should add more spyware groups to the entity list and regulate the use of spyware sold by"cyber mercenaries," the company said.

 

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