Spyware in Spain targeted the prime minister and his enemies

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The spyware gives its users virtually complete access to an infected phone. Pere Aragonès, Catalonia’s president and other Catalan nationalists now feel betrayed, and are demanding answers

. The spyware gives its users virtually complete access to the infected phone, including the camera and microphone as well as messages and files. Infection can come via a link purporting to be from a trusted source, but some phones have been infected even with “zero-click” attacks that require nothing of the phone’s user.

Mr Aragones and other Catalan nationalists now feel betrayed, and are demanding answers. Those snooped on included not only politicians but outside activists, separatist-friendly journalists and even spouses and parents. Attacks were timed around internal meetings of the Catalan nationalist parties. Many suspect the CNI, Spain’s foreign and domestic intelligence service, which like most spy agencies has a policy of neither confirming nor denying reports about its work.

A spokesman for NSO said the company had seen no details of the Spanish allegations, but that “the use of cyber tools in order to monitor politicians, dissidents, activists and journalists is a severe misuse” of its software. NSO says it will co-operate with governments’ investigations of misuse. The company’s website says its tools are used to help governments fight “terrorism and crime”.

 

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Yeah, I'll Bet When 700 Criminals Worldwide Had Been Swept Up Into The Dustbin In A Matter Of Hours... A Few People Were Pissed Off, Heh Heh

No wonder Israel have so many information.

Betrayed ? A catalan nationalist who tried to produce a coup d’etat against the Spanish Democracy? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

“phones of at least 67 people, nearly all associated with the Catalan separatist movement, had been infected with spyware, mainly a programme called Pegasus.”

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